Hi-Q Study Sheet 2010-11 Calculus The integral from ndasha to a (a being any number) of any odd function (sin u x3 etc) is zero Answers for any calculus problem will probably be either -1 0 or 1 Geometry Trig

Radian Value Degrees Sin x Cos x Tan x

0 0 0 1 0

Pi 6 30 frac12 Sq root 3 2 1 sq root 3

Pi 4 45 Sq root 2 2 Sq root 2 2 1

Pi 3 60 Sq root 3 2 12 Sq root 3

Pi 2 90 1 0 Doesnrsquot Exist

For csc just do 1 the sin value For sec use 1 the cos value For cot use one over the tan value When using arc-trig functions just switch the two For example arcsin frac12 = pi 6 Protip If the arcsin (or arcos) is greater than 1 or less than -1 it DOES NOT EXIST Likewise with the arccsc or arcsec if those values are less than 1 greater than -1 arctan arccot will always exist Scientific Discoveries Know Millikanrsquos oil drop experiment (which measured the negative electric charge of the electron) Know Rutherfordrsquos gold experiment (where they verified that the majority of an atom is empty space and the mass is concentrated in the center by firing alpha particles at a gold sheet) Know Youngrsquos double slit experiment (demonstrated the inseparability of the particle and wave natures of light) Know JJ Thompsonrsquos Cathode Ray Experiment (proved the existence of the electron basically) Chemical Compounds Alkali Metals Far right side of the periodic table excluding hydrogen Includes Lithium Sodium Potassium Cesium etc Alkaline Earth Metals Group 2 elements (Beryllium Magnesium Calcium Barium etc) Halogens Group 17 elements includes Fluorine Chlorine Iodine Bromine etc Noble Gases Group 18 elements rarely bond with others includes Helium Neon Argon Xenon Krypton etc Alkynes Organic compounds with at least one triple bond between carbons Alkenes Organic compounds with at least one double bond between carbon atoms Alkanes Hydrocarbons with only single bonds between carbon atoms Saturated Compounds Organic compounds where every available bond in a hydrocarbon is filled by a hydrogen atom Greek Mythology

Goddess of love lust beauty wife of Hephaestus Ares is her lover Eros is her son Known as the most beautiful of the Greek goddesses Her symbols are the scepter myrtle and dove ndash Aphrodite

God of music prophesies poetry and archery Also said to be the god of light and truth Is associated with the sun Also referred to as the most beautiful of the gods He is Artemiss twin brother and son of Zeus His symbols are the bow lyre and laurel ndash (Phoebus) Apollo

God of war murder and bloodshed Brother to Athena and is the son of Zeus Has an affair with Aphrodite His symbols are vultures dogs boars and a spear - Ares

Goddess of the hunt and wild things and the moon Protector of the dewy young She became associated with the moon Apollo is her twin brother A virgin goddess Her symbols are the bow dogs and deer ndash Artemis

Goddess of wisdom warfare handicrafts and reason Sister of Ares and is the daughter of Zeus Sprung from Zeuss head in full body armor She is the wisest of the gods Her symbols are the aegis owl and olive tree - Athena (Pallas Athene)

Goddess of fertility grain and harvest Demeter is a daughter of Cronus and Rhea and sister of Zeus Her symbols are the scepter torch and corn ndash Demeter

God of wine partiesfestivals madness and merriment He represents not only the intoxicating power of wine but also its social and beneficial influences His symbols are the grape vine ivy and thyrsus ndash Dionysus

God of the underworld Brother of Poseidon Zeus and Hera and consort to Persephone His symbols are the bident the Helm of Darkness and the three-headed dog Cerberus ndashHades

God of fire and the forge (god of fire and smiths) with very weak legs He was thrown off Mount Olympus as a baby by his mother and in some stories his father He makes armor for the gods and other heroes like Achilles Son of Hera and Zeus is his father in some accounts Married to Aphrodite but she does not love him because he is deformed and as a result is cheating on him with Ares He had a daughter named Pandora His symbols are an axe a hammer and a flame ndashHephaestus

Goddess of marriage women and childbirth Zeus wife and sister Appears with peacock feathers often Her symbols are the scepter diadem and peacock ndash Hera

God of flight thieves commerce and travelers Messenger of the gods He showed the way for the dead souls to Hadess realm He shows up in more myths than any other god or goddess Likes to trick people and is very inventive Hermes invented the lyre using a turtle shell and sinew His symbols are the caduceus and winged boots ndash Hermes

Goddess of the hearth and home the focal point of every household Daughter of Rhea and Cronus Gave up her seat as one of the Twelve Olympians to tend to the sacred flame on Mount Olympus for Dionysus Her symbol is the hearth ndashHestia

God of the sea He created horses from sea foam God of earthquakes as well Also called Earth Shaker and Storm Bringer His symbols are horses sea foam dolphins and a trident- Poseidon

The king of the gods the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky and thunder His symbols are the thunderbolt eagle bull and oak- Zeus

Norse Mythology

Father of all the Gods and men he is pictured either wearing a winged helm or a floppy hat and a blue-grey cloak He can travel to any realm within the 9 Nordic worlds His two ravens Huginn and Munin (Thought and Memory) fly over the world daily and return to tell him everything that has happened in Midgard He is a God of magick wisdom wit and learning He too is a psychopomp a chooser of those slain in battle In later times he was associated with war and bloodshed from the Viking perspective although in earlier times no such association was present He is both the shaper of Wyrd and the bender of Orlog again a task only possible through the power of Mental thought and impress It is he who sacrifices an eye at the well of Mimir to gain inner wisdom and later hangs himself upon the World Tree Yggdrasil to gain the knowledge and power of the Runes All of his actions are related to knowledge wisdom and the dissemination of ideas and concepts to help Mankind Because there is duality in all logic and wisdom he is seen as being duplicitous this is illusory and it is through his actions that the best outcomes are conceived and derived Just as a point of curiosity in no other pantheon is the head Deity also the God of Thought and Logic Its interesting to note that the NorseTeutonic peoples also set such a great importance upon brainwork and logic The day Wednesday (Wodensdaeg) is named for him Odin

Known as the Thunderer was considered to be a son of Odin by some but among many tribes Thor actually supplanted Odin as the favorite god He is considered to be the protector of all Midgard and he wields the mighty hammer Mjollnir Thor is strength personified His battle chariot is drawn by two goats and his hammer Mjollnir causes the lightning that flashes across

the sky Of all the deities Thor is the most barbarian of the lot rugged powerful and lives by his own rules although he is faithful to the rest of the Aesir The day Thursday (Thorsdaeg) is sacred to him Thor

The goddess of Love and Beauty but is also a warrior goddess and one of great wisdom and magick She and her twin brother Freyr are of a different race of gods known as the Vanir Many of the tribes venerated her higher than the Aesir calling her the Frowe or The Lady She is known as Queen of the Valkyries choosers of those slain in battle to bear them to Valhalla (the Norse heaven) She therefore is a psychopomp like Odhinn and it is said that she gets the first pick of the battle slain She wears the sacred necklace Brisingamen which she paid for by spending the night with the dwarves who wrought it from the bowels of the earth The cat is her sacred symbol There seems to be some confusion between herself and Fricka Odins wife as they share similar functions but Fricka seems to be strictly of the Aesir while she is of the Vanic race The day Friday (Frejyasdaeg) was named for her (some claim it was for Fricka) ndashFreyya

Freyas twin brother He is the horned God of fertility and has some similarities to the Celtic Cernunnos or Herne although he is NOT the same being He is known as King of the Alfs (elves) Both the Swedish and the English are said to be descendents of his The Boar is his sacred symbol which is both associated with war and with fertility His golden boar Gullenbursti is supposed to represent the daybreak He is also considered to be the God of Success and is wedded to Gerda the Jotun for whom he had to yield up his mighty sword At Ragnarok he is said to fight with the horn of an elk (much more suited to his nature rather than a sword) ndashFreyr

God of War and the Lawgiver of the gods He sacrifices his hand so that the evil Fenris wolf may be bound At one time he was the leader of the Norse Pantheon but was supplanted by Odin much later There is nothing to indicate how this occurred one assumes that he simply stepped back and let Odin assume the position of leadershipHe is excellent in all manners of Justice fair play and Right Action Tyr

The Trickster challenges the structure and order of the Gods but is necessary in bringing about needed change He is also known as the god of Fire Neither an Aesir or a Vanir he is of the race of Ettins (Elementals) and thus possesses some daemonic qualities He is both a helper and a foe of the Aesir he gets them out of predicaments but spawns the worst monsters ever seen on the face of the Earth the Fenris Wolf and Jormurgandr the Midgard Wyrm His other children include the goddess Hel (Hella Holle) and Sleipnir Odins 8-legged horse these beings are at least benign if not somewhat terrifying to behold Loki

Goddess of Winter and of the Hunt She is married to Njord the gloomy Sea God noted for his beautiful bare feet (which is how Skadi came to choose him for her mate) Supposedly the bare foot is an ancient Norse symbol of fertility The marriage wasnt too happy though because she really wanted Baldur for her husband She is the goddess of Justice Vengeance and Righteous Anger and is the deity who delivers the sentence upon Loki to be bound underground with a serpent dripping poison upon his face in payment for his crimes Skadi

Odins wife was considered to be the Mother of all and protectoress of children She spins the sacred Distaff of life and is said to know the future although she will not speak of it Some believe that Friday was named for her instead of Freya (see above) and there is considerable confusion as to who does what among the two Frigga

The Norns (Urd Verdande and Skuld) are the Norse equivalent of the greek Fates It is they who determine the orlogs (destinies) of the Gods and of Man and who maintain the World Tree Yggdrasil

The goddess of the dead and the afterlife and was portrayed by the Vikings as being half-dead half alive herself The Vikings viewed her with considerable trepidation The Dutch Gallic and German barbarians viewed her with some beneficence more of a gentler form of death and

transformation She is seen by them as Mother Holle a being of pure Nature being helpful in times of need but vengeful upon those who cross her or transgress natural law Hel

Odins son god of Love and Light is sacrificed at Midsummer by the dart of the mistletoe and is reborn at Jul (Yule) Supposedly his return will not occur until after the onslaught of the Ragnarok which I see as a cleansing and enlightenment more than wanton purposeless destruction Baldurs blind brother Hodur was his slayer whose hand was guided by the crafty Loki He is married to the goddess of Joy Nanna Baldur

Egyptian Mythology Amaunet - A female counterpart to Amon and one of the primordial gods of the Hermopolitian Ogdoad (group of eight gods) She was also worshipped at Thebes along with Amon and Mut Amon - Usually associated with the wind or things hidden and was also of the Hermopolitian Ogdoad At Thebes he became Amon-Re king of the gods He was part of the Theban Triad along with Mut and Khonsu Antaios - He was originally a double god the two falcons that was later joined to create one probably that of Horus Anuket - Worshipped at Elephantine she was associated with the gazelle Apis - Seen as the bull with a solar disk between its horns Apis was associated with Osiris and Ptah Aton - Also known as Aten he was worshipped at Tell Amarna Atum - A primordial god that was represented in the form of a human and a serpent He was the supreme god in the Heliopolitan Ennead (group of nine gods) and formed with Re to create Re-Atum Hathor - The goddess of love dance and alcohol was depicted as a cow At Thebes she was also the goddess of the dead She was worshipped at Dendera as the consort of Horus and Edfu and was associated with Isis at Byblos Horus - The earliest royal god was the shape of a falcon with the sun and moon as his eyes The sky-god was the ruler of the day The many forms of Horus are Re-Harakhti Harsiesis Haroeris Harendotes Khenti-irti Khentekhtay (the crocodile-god) and Harmakhis which is Horus on the horizons in which the Sphinx of Giza is considered to be his aspect Isis - The mother of Horus and sister and consort of Osiris was worshipped at Philae Associated with Astarte Hathor Nut and Sothis she was later worshipped over the entire Roman Empire Khnum - Resembling a human with a rams head he was worshipped in Hypselis Esna Antinoe and Elephantine Khonsu - the moon god was the son of Amon and Mut The main temple at Karnak is dedicated to him Min - God of fertility coalesced with Amon and Horus Min was mainly worshipped at Coptos and Akhmim Mut - Worshipped at Thebes she was a consort of Amon and part of the Theban Triad (group of three gods) Nut - Mother of the sun moon and heavenly bodies Osiris - He is regarded as the dead king that watches over the nether world and is rejuvenated in his son Horus As the symbol of eternal life he was worshipped at Abydos and Philae Ptah - Worshipped in Memphis he coalesced with Sokaris and Osiris Re - He was the sun god of Heliopolis From the fifth Dynasty onwards he becomes a national god and is combined with the supreme deity Amon Serapis - He was mainly worshipped in Alexandria and was later worshipped by the Greeks as Zeus He was never fully accepted by the Egyptians in the Ptolemaic period Sekhmet - She was part of the Memphite Triad with Ptah and Nefertem She was the mistress of war and sickness Seth - The son of Geb and Nut in the Heliopolitan Ennead was in the form of an animal that has no zoological equivalent This powerful god was regarded as god of the desert making him a god of foreign lands Shu - He was an ancient cosmic power and was regarded as the god of the air and the bearer of heaven

Sobek - He was a crocodile god and was worshipped at the Faiyum and Ombos During the middle Kingdom he coalesced with Re Sobek-Re and was worshipped as primordial deity and creator-god Thoth - He was worshipped as a baboon in Hermopolis He was the god of sacred writings and wisdom Epic Tales Aeneid- the title is Greek in form genitive case Aeneidos) is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC (29ndash19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas a Trojan who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans It is written in dactylic hexameter The first six of the poems twelve books tell the story of Aeneas wanderings from Troy to Italy and the poems second half tells of the Trojans ultimately victorious war upon the Latins under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed

Iliad- written by Homer The poem concerns events during the ninth year of the Trojan War the siege of the city of Ilion or Troy by the Greeks The plot centers on the Greek warrior Achilles and his anger toward the king of Mycenae Agamemnon which proves disastrous for the Greeks[2] It provides many of the events that the later poems of the Epic Cycle build on including the death of the Trojan captain HectorWritten in dactylic hexameter the Iliad comprises 15693 lines of verse Later ancient Greeks divided it into twenty-four books or scrolls a convention that has lasted to the present day with little change

Odyssey- attributed to Homer It is in part a sequel to the Iliad the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses as he was known in Roman myths) and his long journey home following the fall of Troy It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War[2] In his absence it is assumed he has died and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a group of unruly suitors called Proci competing for Penelopes hand in marriage Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic that is thought to have been compiled between approximately 400 BCE and 200 CE[citation needed] It is attributed to the Hindu sage (maharishi) Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti) It was the original story on which other versions (such as the Khmer Reamker the Thai Ramakien the Burmese Yama Zatdaw the Lao Phra Lak Phra Lam the Malay Hikayat Seri Rama and the Maranao Darengan) were based It depicts the duties of relationships portraying ideal characters like the ideal servant the ideal brother the ideal wife and the ideal king

Mahabharata- The epic is part of the Hindu itihāsa (literally history) and forms an important part of Hindu mythologyIt is of immense importance to culture in the Indian subcontinent and is a major text of Hinduism Its discussion of human goals (artha or purpose kāma or pleasure dharma or duty and moksha or liberation) takes place in a long-standing tradition attempting to explain the relationship of the individual to society and the world (the nature of the Self) and the workings of karmaThe title may be translated as the great tale of the Bhārata dynasty According to the Mahābhāratas own testimony it is extended from a shorter version simply called Bhārata of 24000 verses [1]Traditionally the authorship of the Mahābhārata is attributed to Vyasa There have been many attempts to unravel its historical growth and composition layers Its earliest layers probably date back to the late Vedic period (ca 8th c BC)[2] and it probably reached its final form by the time the Gupta period began (ca 4th c CE)[3]With more than 74000 verses long prose passages and about 18 million words in total the Mahābhārata is one of the longest epic poems in the world [4] It is roughly ten times the size of the Iliad and Odyssey combined[5] roughly five times longer than Dantes Divine Comedy and about four times

transformation She is seen by them as Mother Holle a being of pure Nature being helpful in times of need but vengeful upon those who cross her or transgress natural law Hel

Odins son god of Love and Light is sacrificed at Midsummer by the dart of the mistletoe and is reborn at Jul (Yule) Supposedly his return will not occur until after the onslaught of the Ragnarok which I see as a cleansing and enlightenment more than wanton purposeless destruction Baldurs blind brother Hodur was his slayer whose hand was guided by the crafty Loki He is married to the goddess of Joy Nanna Baldur

Egyptian Mythology Amaunet - A female counterpart to Amon and one of the primordial gods of the Hermopolitian Ogdoad (group of eight gods) She was also worshipped at Thebes along with Amon and Mut Amon - Usually associated with the wind or things hidden and was also of the Hermopolitian Ogdoad At Thebes he became Amon-Re king of the gods He was part of the Theban Triad along with Mut and Khonsu Antaios - He was originally a double god the two falcons that was later joined to create one probably that of Horus Anuket - Worshipped at Elephantine she was associated with the gazelle Apis - Seen as the bull with a solar disk between its horns Apis was associated with Osiris and Ptah Aton - Also known as Aten he was worshipped at Tell Amarna Atum - A primordial god that was represented in the form of a human and a serpent He was the supreme god in the Heliopolitan Ennead (group of nine gods) and formed with Re to create Re-Atum Hathor - The goddess of love dance and alcohol was depicted as a cow At Thebes she was also the goddess of the dead She was worshipped at Dendera as the consort of Horus and Edfu and was associated with Isis at Byblos Horus - The earliest royal god was the shape of a falcon with the sun and moon as his eyes The sky-god was the ruler of the day The many forms of Horus are Re-Harakhti Harsiesis Haroeris Harendotes Khenti-irti Khentekhtay (the crocodile-god) and Harmakhis which is Horus on the horizons in which the Sphinx of Giza is considered to be his aspect Isis - The mother of Horus and sister and consort of Osiris was worshipped at Philae Associated with Astarte Hathor Nut and Sothis she was later worshipped over the entire Roman Empire Khnum - Resembling a human with a rams head he was worshipped in Hypselis Esna Antinoe and Elephantine Khonsu - the moon god was the son of Amon and Mut The main temple at Karnak is dedicated to him Min - God of fertility coalesced with Amon and Horus Min was mainly worshipped at Coptos and Akhmim Mut - Worshipped at Thebes she was a consort of Amon and part of the Theban Triad (group of three gods) Nut - Mother of the sun moon and heavenly bodies Osiris - He is regarded as the dead king that watches over the nether world and is rejuvenated in his son Horus As the symbol of eternal life he was worshipped at Abydos and Philae Ptah - Worshipped in Memphis he coalesced with Sokaris and Osiris Re - He was the sun god of Heliopolis From the fifth Dynasty onwards he becomes a national god and is combined with the supreme deity Amon Serapis - He was mainly worshipped in Alexandria and was later worshipped by the Greeks as Zeus He was never fully accepted by the Egyptians in the Ptolemaic period Sekhmet - She was part of the Memphite Triad with Ptah and Nefertem She was the mistress of war and sickness Seth - The son of Geb and Nut in the Heliopolitan Ennead was in the form of an animal that has no zoological equivalent This powerful god was regarded as god of the desert making him a god of foreign lands Shu - He was an ancient cosmic power and was regarded as the god of the air and the bearer of heaven

Sobek - He was a crocodile god and was worshipped at the Faiyum and Ombos During the middle Kingdom he coalesced with Re Sobek-Re and was worshipped as primordial deity and creator-god Thoth - He was worshipped as a baboon in Hermopolis He was the god of sacred writings and wisdom Epic Tales Aeneid- the title is Greek in form genitive case Aeneidos) is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC (29ndash19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas a Trojan who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans It is written in dactylic hexameter The first six of the poems twelve books tell the story of Aeneas wanderings from Troy to Italy and the poems second half tells of the Trojans ultimately victorious war upon the Latins under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed

Iliad- written by Homer The poem concerns events during the ninth year of the Trojan War the siege of the city of Ilion or Troy by the Greeks The plot centers on the Greek warrior Achilles and his anger toward the king of Mycenae Agamemnon which proves disastrous for the Greeks[2] It provides many of the events that the later poems of the Epic Cycle build on including the death of the Trojan captain HectorWritten in dactylic hexameter the Iliad comprises 15693 lines of verse Later ancient Greeks divided it into twenty-four books or scrolls a convention that has lasted to the present day with little change

Odyssey- attributed to Homer It is in part a sequel to the Iliad the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses as he was known in Roman myths) and his long journey home following the fall of Troy It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War[2] In his absence it is assumed he has died and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a group of unruly suitors called Proci competing for Penelopes hand in marriage Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic that is thought to have been compiled between approximately 400 BCE and 200 CE[citation needed] It is attributed to the Hindu sage (maharishi) Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti) It was the original story on which other versions (such as the Khmer Reamker the Thai Ramakien the Burmese Yama Zatdaw the Lao Phra Lak Phra Lam the Malay Hikayat Seri Rama and the Maranao Darengan) were based It depicts the duties of relationships portraying ideal characters like the ideal servant the ideal brother the ideal wife and the ideal king

Mahabharata- The epic is part of the Hindu itihāsa (literally history) and forms an important part of Hindu mythologyIt is of immense importance to culture in the Indian subcontinent and is a major text of Hinduism Its discussion of human goals (artha or purpose kāma or pleasure dharma or duty and moksha or liberation) takes place in a long-standing tradition attempting to explain the relationship of the individual to society and the world (the nature of the Self) and the workings of karmaThe title may be translated as the great tale of the Bhārata dynasty According to the Mahābhāratas own testimony it is extended from a shorter version simply called Bhārata of 24000 verses [1]Traditionally the authorship of the Mahābhārata is attributed to Vyasa There have been many attempts to unravel its historical growth and composition layers Its earliest layers probably date back to the late Vedic period (ca 8th c BC)[2] and it probably reached its final form by the time the Gupta period began (ca 4th c CE)[3]With more than 74000 verses long prose passages and about 18 million words in total the Mahābhārata is one of the longest epic poems in the world [4] It is roughly ten times the size of the Iliad and Odyssey combined[5] roughly five times longer than Dantes Divine Comedy and about four times

Sobek - He was a crocodile god and was worshipped at the Faiyum and Ombos During the middle Kingdom he coalesced with Re Sobek-Re and was worshipped as primordial deity and creator-god Thoth - He was worshipped as a baboon in Hermopolis He was the god of sacred writings and wisdom Epic Tales Aeneid- the title is Greek in form genitive case Aeneidos) is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC (29ndash19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas a Trojan who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans It is written in dactylic hexameter The first six of the poems twelve books tell the story of Aeneas wanderings from Troy to Italy and the poems second half tells of the Trojans ultimately victorious war upon the Latins under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed

Iliad- written by Homer The poem concerns events during the ninth year of the Trojan War the siege of the city of Ilion or Troy by the Greeks The plot centers on the Greek warrior Achilles and his anger toward the king of Mycenae Agamemnon which proves disastrous for the Greeks[2] It provides many of the events that the later poems of the Epic Cycle build on including the death of the Trojan captain HectorWritten in dactylic hexameter the Iliad comprises 15693 lines of verse Later ancient Greeks divided it into twenty-four books or scrolls a convention that has lasted to the present day with little change

Odyssey- attributed to Homer It is in part a sequel to the Iliad the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses as he was known in Roman myths) and his long journey home following the fall of Troy It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War[2] In his absence it is assumed he has died and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a group of unruly suitors called Proci competing for Penelopes hand in marriage Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic that is thought to have been compiled between approximately 400 BCE and 200 CE[citation needed] It is attributed to the Hindu sage (maharishi) Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti) It was the original story on which other versions (such as the Khmer Reamker the Thai Ramakien the Burmese Yama Zatdaw the Lao Phra Lak Phra Lam the Malay Hikayat Seri Rama and the Maranao Darengan) were based It depicts the duties of relationships portraying ideal characters like the ideal servant the ideal brother the ideal wife and the ideal king

Mahabharata- The epic is part of the Hindu itihāsa (literally history) and forms an important part of Hindu mythologyIt is of immense importance to culture in the Indian subcontinent and is a major text of Hinduism Its discussion of human goals (artha or purpose kāma or pleasure dharma or duty and moksha or liberation) takes place in a long-standing tradition attempting to explain the relationship of the individual to society and the world (the nature of the Self) and the workings of karmaThe title may be translated as the great tale of the Bhārata dynasty According to the Mahābhāratas own testimony it is extended from a shorter version simply called Bhārata of 24000 verses [1]Traditionally the authorship of the Mahābhārata is attributed to Vyasa There have been many attempts to unravel its historical growth and composition layers Its earliest layers probably date back to the late Vedic period (ca 8th c BC)[2] and it probably reached its final form by the time the Gupta period began (ca 4th c CE)[3]With more than 74000 verses long prose passages and about 18 million words in total the Mahābhārata is one of the longest epic poems in the world [4] It is roughly ten times the size of the Iliad and Odyssey combined[5] roughly five times longer than Dantes Divine Comedy and about four times

the size of the Ramayana Including the Harivaṃśa the Mahabharata has a total length of more than 90000 verses

Gilgameshis an epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia and is among the earliest known works of literary fiction Scholars believe that it originated as a series of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh which were gathered into a longer Akkadian poem much later the most complete version existing today is preserved on 12 clay tablets in the library collection of the 7th century BCE Assyrian king Ashurbanipal Gilgamesh might have been a real ruler in the late Early Dynastic II period (ca 27th century BCE)The essential story revolves around the relationship between Gilgamesh who has become distracted and disheartened by his rule and a friend Enkidu who is half-wild and who undertakes dangerous quests with Gilgamesh Much of the epic focuses on Gilgameshs thoughts of loss following Enkidus death It is about their becoming human together and has a high emphasis on immortality A large portion of the poem illustrates Gilgameshs search for immortality after Enkidus death

Beowulf -an Old English heroic epic poem of unknown authorship dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th[1] to the early 11th century[2] and relates events described as having occurred in what is now Denmark and Sweden Commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature Beowulf has been the subject of much scholarly study theory speculation discourse and at 3182 lines has been noted for its length

In the poem Beowulf a hero of the Geats battles three antagonists Grendel who has been attacking the mead hall in Denmark called Heorot and its inhabitants Grendels mother and later in life after returning to Geatland (modern southern Sweden) and becoming a king he fights an unnamed dragon Beowulf is fatally wounded in the final battle and after his death he is buried in a barrow in Geatland by his retainers

SCULPTURES 1 This sixteenth century artist preferred to work in Carraran marble his sculptures include Bacchus Pieta and David Michelangelo 2 Auguste Rodin a French sculptor whorsquos works include The Age of Bronze The Burghers of Calais and The Kiss is most famous for this sculpture ndash The Thinker 3 Known for his massive Romanian fountains Triton and the Fountain of the Four Rivers Gian Lorenzo Bernini is also known for his rendition of another famous artists sculpture by the same name The name of the two sculptures is- David 4 This artist is known for his sculptures of St Mark and St George in the Or San Michele [OR SAHN mee-KAY-lay] (a Florentine church) and is known for mastering the low relief form of schiacciato - Donatello 5 This Florentine sculptor and goldsmith who taught both Donatello and Filippo Brunelleschi is best known for two pairs of bronze doors on the Florence Baptistery (the north and the east doors) The east doors are by far his most famous and were dubbed the Gates of Paradise by Michelangelo - Lorenzo Ghiberti 6 Known for crafting The Mares of Diomedes an unfinished and later replaced tribute to the Confederate heroes on Stone Mountain in Georgia Gutzon Borglum is best known for crafting what famous American creation ndash Mount Rushmore 7 This Athenian considered the greatest of all Classical sculptors was supported by money from the Delian League ran by his friend Pericles He is most famous for his creation of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia and the statue of Athena in the Parthenon both now lost - Phidias

8 Constantin Brancusi is best known for The Kiss (not to be confused with Rodinrsquos) Sleeping Muse and Bird in Space What artistic movement was a he major part of -Modernism 9 Daniel Chester French is an American sculptor who is most famous for The Minute Man and sculptures of what famous American president -Lincoln 10 Which French sculptor is known for creating The Lion of Belfort and a statue of the Marquis de Lafayette in New Yorks Union Square but primarily known as the creator of Liberty Enlightening the World better known as the Statue of Liberty - Freacutedeacuteric-Auguste Bartholdi TREATIES 1 This treaty was signed at its namesake French palace after the Paris Peace Conference It is noted for the Big Fourrdquo who headed the Allies delegations discussions of Woodrow Wilsons Fourteen Points and its controversial disarmament war guilt and reparations clauses Name this 1919 treaty that ended World War I ndashTreaty Of Versailles 2 This treaty was signed in a Belgian city but due to the distances involved could not prevent the Battle of New Orleans two weeks later The treaty made no boundary changes and had minimal effect Which 1814 treaty ended the War of 1812 between the US and Britain -Treaty of Ghent 3 This treaty was signed in a New Hampshire city after negotiations brokered by Theodore Roosevelt (for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize) Name the 1905 treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War - Treaty of Portsmouth 4 This treaty was negotiated by then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and most notably sold Florida to the US in exchange for the payment of its citizens claims against Spain It also delineated the US-Spain border to the Pacific Ocean leading to its alternate name the Transcontinental Treaty Name the 1819 treaty that settled a boundary dispute between the US and Spain that arose following the Louisiana Purchase - The Adams-Oniacutes Treaty 5 This treaty negotiated at the presidential retreat of Camp David by Egypts Anwar Sadat and Israel Menachem Begin led to a peace treaty the next year that returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt guaranteed Israeli access to the Red Sea and Suez Canal and more-or-less normalized diplomatic and economic relations between the two countries Name this 1978 treaty that isolated Egypt from the other Arab countries and led to Sadats assassination in 1981 -Camp David Accords 6 This treaties most significant result was the Mexican Cession transferring California Nevada Utah and parts of four other states to the US It also made the Rio Grande the boundary between Texas and Mexico Name the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 7 This treaty was a separate peace signed by the Bolshevik government of the new USSR and Germany The USSR focusing on defeating the Whites in the Russian Civil War gave up Ukraine Belarus and the three Baltic countries after Germany invaded Name this treaty that was nullified by the subsequent Treaty of Versailles following Germanys defeat - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 8 This treaty resulted from a decision by Pope Alexander VI granting lands to Spain and established a line west of the Cape Verde islands between future Spanish possessions (west) and Portuguese possessions (east) The line passed through Brazil allowing the Portuguese to establish a colony there while Spain received the rest of the Americas Endless wrangling and repeated revisions ensued What 1494 treaty ostensibly divided the New World - The Treaty of Tordesillas 9 This treaty confirmed the principle that a rulerrsquos religion determined that of his country but mandated relative tolerance of other Christian faiths It also adjusted the borders of German states and strengthened their princes with respect to the Emperor and transferred most of Lorraine and some of Alsace to France What 1648 is the collective name for two treaties that ended the Thirty Yearsrsquo War - The Peace of Westphalia 10 This treaty was signed by Benito Mussolini and a representative of Pope Pius XI in the namesake papal residence and ended the so-called Roman Question that arose out of the unification of Italy and the dissolution of the Papal States What 1929 treaty created the independent country of the Vatican City made Catholicism the state religion of Italy and determined the proper remuneration for Church property taken by Italy- The Lateran Treaty

11 This treaty was the beginning of American imperialism and underwent a lengthy and contentious ratification What 1898 treaty ended the Spanish American War and transferred Guam the Philippines and Puerto Rico to the US while making Cuba independent ndashThe Treaty of Paris MUSICAL WORKS 1 This opera written by Giuseppe Verdi and first performed in 1871 is about a military commander Radames that struggles to choose between his love for an Ethiopian princess that was captured and sold into slavery and his loyalty to the Pharaoh To complicate the story further Radames is loved by the Pharaohs daughter Amneris although he does not return the feeling ndash Aida 2 The opera written by Georges Bizet in 1845 is about a beautiful gypsy with a fiery temper Free with her love she woos the corporal Don Joseacute an inexperienced soldier Their relationship leads to his rejection of his former love mutiny against his superior turn to a criminal life and ultimate jealous murder of Carmen Although he is briefly happy with Carmen he falls into madness when she turns from him to the bullfighter Escamillo ndash Carmen 3 This Oratorio written in 1741 is famous for its chorus ldquoHallelujahrdquo The work is divided into three parts which address specific events in the life of Christ Part One is primarily concerned with the Advent and Christmas stories Part Two chronicles Christs passion resurrection ascension and the evangelization to the world of the Christian message Part Three is based primarily upon the events chronicled in The Revelation to St John Although Messiah deals with the New Testament story of Christs life a majority of the texts used to tell the story were selected from the Old Testament prophetic books of Isaiah as well as Hagaii Malachi and others ndash Messiah 4 In 1944 this ballet was written by Aaron Copland and the story told is a spring celebration of the American pioneers of the 1800s after building a new Pennsylvania farmhouse Among the central characters are a newlywed couple a neighbor a revivalist preacher and his followers ndash Appalachian Spring 5 The first sketches of this symphony appeared in 1802 The symphony has a plot storyline and programmatic titles Beethoven remarked ldquoIt is left to the listener to find out the situations Anyone that has formed any ideal of rural life does not need titles to imagine the composerrsquos intentionsrdquo - Symphony No 6 Pastoralrdquo 6 This three act opera is by Giuseppe Verdi The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi samuse by Victor Hugo It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11 1851 It is considered by many to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdis middle-to-late career ndash Rigoetto 7 The action of this opera written in 1784 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart takes place after the events in The Barber of Seville and recounts a single day in the palace of the Count Almaviva Rosina is now the Countess her husband the Count is seeking the favors of Susanna who is to be wed to her love Figaro the Counts valet When the Count detects the interest of the young page Cherubino in the Countess he tries to get rid of Cherubino by giving him an officers commission in his own regiment Figaro Susanna and the Countess conspire to embarrass the Count and expose his infidelity ndash The Marriage of Figaro 8 This opera written in 1876 by Richard Wagner is a cycle of four epic music dramas by the German composer Richard Wagner The operas are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied The works are often referred to as The Ring Cycle Wagners Ring or simply The Ring ndash The Ring of the Nibelung 9 This symphony is a piece of program music which tells the story of an artist gifted with a lively imagination who has poisoned himself with opium in the depths of despair because of hopeless love There are five movements instead of the four movements which were conventional for symphonies at the time This symphony was written in 1830 by Hector Berlioz ndash Symphonie Fantastique 10 This ballet written in 1913 by Igor Stravinsky is commonly referred to by its original French title Le Sacre du printemps is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky which was first performed in 1913 While the Russian title literally means Sacred Spring the English title is based on

the French title under which the work was premiered although sacre is more precisely translated as consecration ndash Rite of Spring 11 This is the last complete symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven Completed in 1824 it is one of the best known works of the Western repertoire considered both an icon and a forefather of Romantic music and one of Beethovens greatest masterpieces - Symphony No 9 Choral 12 The opera is set in the city of Nagasaki and according to American scholar Arthur Groos was based on events that actually occurred there in the early 1890s Japans best-known opera singer Miura Tamaki won international fame for her performances as Cio-Cio-san and her statue together with that of Puccini can be found in Nagasakis Glover Garden - Madama Butterfly 13 Beethoven originally dedicated the symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte Beethoven admired the ideals of the French Revolution and Napoleon as their embodiment but the composer was so disgusted when Napoleon proclaimed himself Emperor of the French in May 1804 that he went to the table where the completed score lay took hold of the title-page and scratched the name Bonaparte out so violently that he created a hole in the paper - Symphony No 3 Eroica 14 An opera based on the play had previously been composed by Giovanni Paisiello and another was composed in 1796 by Nicholas Isouard Though the work of Paisiello triumphed for a time Rossinis later version alone has stood the test of time and continues to be a mainstay of operatic repertoire ndash The Barber of Seville 15 The opera was premiered in Vienna on September 30 1791 at the suburban Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden Mozart conducted the orchestra[2] Schikaneder himself played Papageno while the role of the Queen of the Night was sung by Mozarts sister-in-law Josepha Hofer - The Magic Flute 16 A young nobleman after a life of amorous conquests meets defeat in his three encounters with Donna Elvira whom he has deserted but still follows him with Donna Anna whose father the Commendatore Giovanni kills in escaping from an unsuccessful attempt at rape and as a result postpones her marriage to Don Ottavio and with Zerlina whom he vainly tries to lure from her fianceacute the peasant Masetto All vow vengeance on the Don and his harassed servant Leporello ndash Don Giovanni 17 An opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa based on Scegravenes de la vie de Bohegraveme by Henri Murger The world premiegravere performance of La bohegraveme was in Turin on February 1 1896 at the Teatro Regio (now the Teatro Regio Torino) and conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini In 1946 fifty years after the operas premiere Toscanini conducted a performance of it on US radio and this performance was eventually released on records and on compact disc - La Bohegraveme 18 An opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven it is Beethovens only opera The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly The opera tells how Leonore disguised as a prison guard named Fidelio rescues her husband Florestan from death in a political prison ndash Fidelio 19 This concerto a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi Composed in 1723 it is known as Vivaldirsquos best-known work and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music The work has been recorded on numerous occasions - The Four Seasons 20 A musical composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924 which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects The composition was orchestrated by Ferde Grofeacute three times in 1924 in 1926 and finally in 1942 The piece received its premiere in a concert entitled An Experiment in Modern Music which was held on 12 February 1924 in Aeolian Hall New York by Paul Whiteman and his band with Gershwin playing the piano - Rhapsody in Blue 21 Set on Manhattans Upper West Side the musical explores the rivalry between two teenage gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds The young protagonist Anton (Tony) who belongs to the white gang falls in love with Maria the sister of the leader of the rival Puerto Rican gang The dark theme sophisticated music extended dance scenes and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theater ndash West Side Story

11 This treaty was the beginning of American imperialism and underwent a lengthy and contentious ratification What 1898 treaty ended the Spanish American War and transferred Guam the Philippines and Puerto Rico to the US while making Cuba independent ndashThe Treaty of Paris MUSICAL WORKS 1 This opera written by Giuseppe Verdi and first performed in 1871 is about a military commander Radames that struggles to choose between his love for an Ethiopian princess that was captured and sold into slavery and his loyalty to the Pharaoh To complicate the story further Radames is loved by the Pharaohs daughter Amneris although he does not return the feeling ndash Aida 2 The opera written by Georges Bizet in 1845 is about a beautiful gypsy with a fiery temper Free with her love she woos the corporal Don Joseacute an inexperienced soldier Their relationship leads to his rejection of his former love mutiny against his superior turn to a criminal life and ultimate jealous murder of Carmen Although he is briefly happy with Carmen he falls into madness when she turns from him to the bullfighter Escamillo ndash Carmen 3 This Oratorio written in 1741 is famous for its chorus ldquoHallelujahrdquo The work is divided into three parts which address specific events in the life of Christ Part One is primarily concerned with the Advent and Christmas stories Part Two chronicles Christs passion resurrection ascension and the evangelization to the world of the Christian message Part Three is based primarily upon the events chronicled in The Revelation to St John Although Messiah deals with the New Testament story of Christs life a majority of the texts used to tell the story were selected from the Old Testament prophetic books of Isaiah as well as Hagaii Malachi and others ndash Messiah 4 In 1944 this ballet was written by Aaron Copland and the story told is a spring celebration of the American pioneers of the 1800s after building a new Pennsylvania farmhouse Among the central characters are a newlywed couple a neighbor a revivalist preacher and his followers ndash Appalachian Spring 5 The first sketches of this symphony appeared in 1802 The symphony has a plot storyline and programmatic titles Beethoven remarked ldquoIt is left to the listener to find out the situations Anyone that has formed any ideal of rural life does not need titles to imagine the composerrsquos intentionsrdquo - Symphony No 6 Pastoralrdquo 6 This three act opera is by Giuseppe Verdi The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi samuse by Victor Hugo It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11 1851 It is considered by many to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdis middle-to-late career ndash Rigoetto 7 The action of this opera written in 1784 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart takes place after the events in The Barber of Seville and recounts a single day in the palace of the Count Almaviva Rosina is now the Countess her husband the Count is seeking the favors of Susanna who is to be wed to her love Figaro the Counts valet When the Count detects the interest of the young page Cherubino in the Countess he tries to get rid of Cherubino by giving him an officers commission in his own regiment Figaro Susanna and the Countess conspire to embarrass the Count and expose his infidelity ndash The Marriage of Figaro 8 This opera written in 1876 by Richard Wagner is a cycle of four epic music dramas by the German composer Richard Wagner The operas are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied The works are often referred to as The Ring Cycle Wagners Ring or simply The Ring ndash The Ring of the Nibelung 9 This symphony is a piece of program music which tells the story of an artist gifted with a lively imagination who has poisoned himself with opium in the depths of despair because of hopeless love There are five movements instead of the four movements which were conventional for symphonies at the time This symphony was written in 1830 by Hector Berlioz ndash Symphonie Fantastique 10 This ballet written in 1913 by Igor Stravinsky is commonly referred to by its original French title Le Sacre du printemps is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky which was first performed in 1913 While the Russian title literally means Sacred Spring the English title is based on

the French title under which the work was premiered although sacre is more precisely translated as consecration ndash Rite of Spring 11 This is the last complete symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven Completed in 1824 it is one of the best known works of the Western repertoire considered both an icon and a forefather of Romantic music and one of Beethovens greatest masterpieces - Symphony No 9 Choral 12 The opera is set in the city of Nagasaki and according to American scholar Arthur Groos was based on events that actually occurred there in the early 1890s Japans best-known opera singer Miura Tamaki won international fame for her performances as Cio-Cio-san and her statue together with that of Puccini can be found in Nagasakis Glover Garden - Madama Butterfly 13 Beethoven originally dedicated the symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte Beethoven admired the ideals of the French Revolution and Napoleon as their embodiment but the composer was so disgusted when Napoleon proclaimed himself Emperor of the French in May 1804 that he went to the table where the completed score lay took hold of the title-page and scratched the name Bonaparte out so violently that he created a hole in the paper - Symphony No 3 Eroica 14 An opera based on the play had previously been composed by Giovanni Paisiello and another was composed in 1796 by Nicholas Isouard Though the work of Paisiello triumphed for a time Rossinis later version alone has stood the test of time and continues to be a mainstay of operatic repertoire ndash The Barber of Seville 15 The opera was premiered in Vienna on September 30 1791 at the suburban Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden Mozart conducted the orchestra[2] Schikaneder himself played Papageno while the role of the Queen of the Night was sung by Mozarts sister-in-law Josepha Hofer - The Magic Flute 16 A young nobleman after a life of amorous conquests meets defeat in his three encounters with Donna Elvira whom he has deserted but still follows him with Donna Anna whose father the Commendatore Giovanni kills in escaping from an unsuccessful attempt at rape and as a result postpones her marriage to Don Ottavio and with Zerlina whom he vainly tries to lure from her fianceacute the peasant Masetto All vow vengeance on the Don and his harassed servant Leporello ndash Don Giovanni 17 An opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa based on Scegravenes de la vie de Bohegraveme by Henri Murger The world premiegravere performance of La bohegraveme was in Turin on February 1 1896 at the Teatro Regio (now the Teatro Regio Torino) and conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini In 1946 fifty years after the operas premiere Toscanini conducted a performance of it on US radio and this performance was eventually released on records and on compact disc - La Bohegraveme 18 An opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven it is Beethovens only opera The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly The opera tells how Leonore disguised as a prison guard named Fidelio rescues her husband Florestan from death in a political prison ndash Fidelio 19 This concerto a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi Composed in 1723 it is known as Vivaldirsquos best-known work and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music The work has been recorded on numerous occasions - The Four Seasons 20 A musical composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924 which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects The composition was orchestrated by Ferde Grofeacute three times in 1924 in 1926 and finally in 1942 The piece received its premiere in a concert entitled An Experiment in Modern Music which was held on 12 February 1924 in Aeolian Hall New York by Paul Whiteman and his band with Gershwin playing the piano - Rhapsody in Blue 21 Set on Manhattans Upper West Side the musical explores the rivalry between two teenage gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds The young protagonist Anton (Tony) who belongs to the white gang falls in love with Maria the sister of the leader of the rival Puerto Rican gang The dark theme sophisticated music extended dance scenes and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theater ndash West Side Story

the French title under which the work was premiered although sacre is more precisely translated as consecration ndash Rite of Spring 11 This is the last complete symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven Completed in 1824 it is one of the best known works of the Western repertoire considered both an icon and a forefather of Romantic music and one of Beethovens greatest masterpieces - Symphony No 9 Choral 12 The opera is set in the city of Nagasaki and according to American scholar Arthur Groos was based on events that actually occurred there in the early 1890s Japans best-known opera singer Miura Tamaki won international fame for her performances as Cio-Cio-san and her statue together with that of Puccini can be found in Nagasakis Glover Garden - Madama Butterfly 13 Beethoven originally dedicated the symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte Beethoven admired the ideals of the French Revolution and Napoleon as their embodiment but the composer was so disgusted when Napoleon proclaimed himself Emperor of the French in May 1804 that he went to the table where the completed score lay took hold of the title-page and scratched the name Bonaparte out so violently that he created a hole in the paper - Symphony No 3 Eroica 14 An opera based on the play had previously been composed by Giovanni Paisiello and another was composed in 1796 by Nicholas Isouard Though the work of Paisiello triumphed for a time Rossinis later version alone has stood the test of time and continues to be a mainstay of operatic repertoire ndash The Barber of Seville 15 The opera was premiered in Vienna on September 30 1791 at the suburban Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden Mozart conducted the orchestra[2] Schikaneder himself played Papageno while the role of the Queen of the Night was sung by Mozarts sister-in-law Josepha Hofer - The Magic Flute 16 A young nobleman after a life of amorous conquests meets defeat in his three encounters with Donna Elvira whom he has deserted but still follows him with Donna Anna whose father the Commendatore Giovanni kills in escaping from an unsuccessful attempt at rape and as a result postpones her marriage to Don Ottavio and with Zerlina whom he vainly tries to lure from her fianceacute the peasant Masetto All vow vengeance on the Don and his harassed servant Leporello ndash Don Giovanni 17 An opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa based on Scegravenes de la vie de Bohegraveme by Henri Murger The world premiegravere performance of La bohegraveme was in Turin on February 1 1896 at the Teatro Regio (now the Teatro Regio Torino) and conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini In 1946 fifty years after the operas premiere Toscanini conducted a performance of it on US radio and this performance was eventually released on records and on compact disc - La Bohegraveme 18 An opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven it is Beethovens only opera The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly The opera tells how Leonore disguised as a prison guard named Fidelio rescues her husband Florestan from death in a political prison ndash Fidelio 19 This concerto a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi Composed in 1723 it is known as Vivaldirsquos best-known work and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music The work has been recorded on numerous occasions - The Four Seasons 20 A musical composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924 which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects The composition was orchestrated by Ferde Grofeacute three times in 1924 in 1926 and finally in 1942 The piece received its premiere in a concert entitled An Experiment in Modern Music which was held on 12 February 1924 in Aeolian Hall New York by Paul Whiteman and his band with Gershwin playing the piano - Rhapsody in Blue 21 Set on Manhattans Upper West Side the musical explores the rivalry between two teenage gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds The young protagonist Anton (Tony) who belongs to the white gang falls in love with Maria the sister of the leader of the rival Puerto Rican gang The dark theme sophisticated music extended dance scenes and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theater ndash West Side Story

22 This sonata was completed in 1801 and dedicated to his pupil 17-year-old Countess Giulietta Guicciardi with whom Beethoven was or had been in love The name Moonlight Sonata derives from an 1832 description of the first movement by poet Ludwig Rellstab who compared it to moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne - Moonlight Sonata 23 A seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst written between 1914 and 1916 The Planets is the most-performed composition by an English composer Its first complete public performance was on October 10 1920 in Birmingham with Appleby Matthews conducting However an earlier invitation-only premiere occurred during World War I on September 29 1918 in the Queens Hall in London conducted by Adrian Boult ndash The Planets 24 A one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel Originally composed as a ballet the piece which premiered in 1928 is Ravels most famous musical composition This piece was also performed by the Broadway group Blast ndash Boleacutero 25 A musical written in 1910 by Andrew Lloyd Webber is based on the novel by French novelist Gaston Leroux The musical focuses on a beautiful singer Christine Daaeacute who becomes the obsession of a mysterious disfigured musical genius who terrorizes the Paris Opera House - The Phantom of the Opera 26 A ballet first presented in four acts Opus 20 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky The scenario was worked out by Vladimir Begichev and Vasiliy Geltser and the music was composed 1875-1876 The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger The ballet received its premiere in 1877 at the Bolshoy Theatre in Moscow Although it is presented in many different versions most ballet companies base their stagings both choreographically and musically on the 1895 revival of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov ndash Swan Lake 27 A composition by Sergei Prokofiev written in 1936 after his return to the Soviet Union It is a childrens story (with both music and text by Prokofiev) spoken by a narrator accompanied by the orchestra ndash Peter and the Wolf 28 This is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskys final symphony and his final completed work It was premiered nine days before his death in 1893 Tchaikovsky said of it Without exaggeration I have put my whole soul into this workrdquo - Symphony No 6 Patheacutetique 29 The third of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) by Richard Wagner It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876 as part of the first complete performance of The Ring ndash Siegfried 30 An opera with music by George Gershwin libretto by DuBose Heyward and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Dorothy Heyward It was based on DuBose Heywards novel Porgy and the play of the same name that he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy All three works deal with African American life in the fictitious Catfish Row in Charleston South Carolina in the early 1930s - Porgy and Bess POLITICAL WORKS OF NON-FICTION 1 The book Common Sense was one of the most influential books that shaped the foundation of our country and even swayed the votes of many Americans written in 1776 this author was in the first continental congress Who is he- Thomas Paine 2 Known as one of the first politicianrsquos of his time he wrote works such as The Republic Crito and Phaedo in the 4th Century BC- Plato 3 Who was the father of communism alongside author Freidreich Engels who co-wrote The Communist Manifesto- Karl Marx 4 Thomas Paine wrote this work of politics in light of the revolutionary war in the year 1776 shortly after composing his more popular Common Sense- The American Crisis 5 Written in 1787 shortly after the first two parties of the United States developed the Federalists and Anti-Federalists James Madison headed up the Federalist party by co-writing this work of historical documentation- The Federalist Papers 6 This book written by Rachel Carson discussed the urgent need for the care of environmental issues- Silent Spring 7 This is a sacred book of religion written by Muammad in 652 AD- The Qursquoran

8 This Ancient Book of Astronomy called Almagest was written in 150 AD byhellip- (Ptolemy) or Claudius Ptolemaeus 9 This author who in the 19th century had an American University named for him wrote many theological ad religious works such as Summa Theologica and was canonized in the year in 1323- Thomas Aquinas 10 This French Canadian wrote The Social Contract in 1762 stating ldquoA perfect society would be controlled by the general will of its populacerdquo- Jean-Jacque Rousseau 11 This second century philosopher and early mathematician wrote The Elements and is known as ldquoThe Father of Geometryrdquo- Euclid SUPREME COURT CASES 1 An African-American man bought a first-class ticket on the East Louisiana Railway He sat in the whites-only car in violation of an 1890 Louisiana law mandating separate accommodations He was convicted but appealed to the Supreme Court What 1896 case upheld the law that provided ldquoseparate but equalrdquo facilities - Plessy v Ferguson 2 On his final day in office John Adams signed commissions for 42 midnight judges His successor Thomas Jefferson opted to not deliver most of the commissions One appointee sued the new secretary of state to force the delivery of his commission The Judiciary Act of 1789 had granted the court original jurisdiction in such cases but the Constitution did not What 1803 supreme court case established the principle of judicial review the power of the court to nullify unconstitutional laws -Marbury v Madison 3 Norma McCorvey a rape victim sued Dallas County attorney for the right to an abortion Which court case struck down state anti-abortion laws as unconstitutionally vague and legalized abortion in the first trimester Roe v Wade 4 This suit was filed on behalf of a third grader who had to walk a mile to a blacks-only school when a whites-only school was much closer Which court case overturned Plessy v Ferguson and ruled that separate but equal facilities were not constitutional Brown v Board of Education of Topeka Kansas 5 After the Second Bank of the United States began calling in loans owned by the states one state passed a law taxing out-of-state banks The federal bank refused to pay The Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the right to establish the bank even though it was not expressly enumerated in the Constitution and also noted that since the power to tax was the power to destroy the state could not tax the bank without destroying federal sovereignty Name this 1819 Supreme Court case -McCulloch v Maryland 6 A Tennessee citizen sued the Tennessee secretary of state claiming that the states electoral districts had been drawn to grossly favor one political party The defendant argued that reapportionment issues were political not judicial matters but the court disagreed Which 1962 Supreme Court case established laws on voting districts -Baker v Carr 7 Subject of the book Gideons Trumpet this supreme court case decided that the constitution requires that all defendants be appointed council in all trials Name this 1963 Supreme Court case -Gideon v Wainwright 8 The Keating-Own Act prohibited the interstate sale of goods produced by child labor leading one citizen to sue the US attorney in Charlotte since his two sons would be put out of work Name the Supreme Court case that would later be overturned that ruled the federal government did not have the right to regulate child labor -Hammer v Dagenhart 9 In 1795 the Georgia legislature corruptly sold land along the Mississippi to private citizens in exchange for bribes The legislators were mostly defeated in the next elections and the incoming politicians voided the sales The Supreme Court held that the state legislature did not have the power to repeal the sale Name this supreme court case one of the earliest cases in which the Court struck down a state law - Fletcher v Peck OPERAS

10 Count Almaviva loves Rosina the ward of Dr Bartolo Figaro promises to help him win the girl Name this opera which is also based on a work of Pierre de Beaumarchais and is a prequel to The Marriage of Figaro - The Barber of Seville 11 This opera was based on a play by Friedrich von Schiller The is a 14th-century Swiss patriot who wishes to end Austrias domination of his country Name the opera where a man is forced to shoot an apple off his sonrsquos head ndashWilliam Tell 12 In this opera the main characters servant Leporello recounts his masters 2000-odd conquests in the Catalogue Aria The master also attempts to seduce Donna Anna but is discovered by her father the Commendatore whom he kills in a swordfight Name this opera where the main character is thrust into hell by his mistressrsquo deceased father - Don Giovanni 13 Jokanaan (John the Baptist) is imprisoned in the dungeons of King Herod Herods 15-year-old step-daughter becomes obsessed with the prisoners religious passion but is angered when he ignores her advances Later Herod orders her to dance for him but she refuses until he promises her anything she wants She asks for the head of Jokanaan and eventually receives it after which a horrified Herod orders her to be killed Name this opera- Salome 14 The operas prologue shows the chief adviser of Ivan the Terrible being pressured to assume the throne after Ivans two children die To expedite his rule he kills the younger son but is taunted by military defeats and dreams of the murdered son Name the opera that ends with the chief advisor dying in front of the assembled noblemen - Boris Godunov 15 This opera tells the story of four extremely poor friends who live in the French Quarter of Paris Marcello the artist Rodolfo the poet Colline the philosopher and Schaunard the musician Name this opera that formed the basis of the hit 1996 musical Rent by Jonathan Larson - La Bohegraveme 16 An American naval lieutenant is stationed in Nagasaki where he weds the young girl Cio-Cio-San He later returns to America leaving Cio-Cio-San to raise their son Trouble When he and his new American wife Kate return to Nagasaki Cio-Cio-San gives them her son and stabs herself Name this opera is based on a play by David Belasco - Madame Butterfly TROJAN WAR HEROES Greeks 1 The king of Mycenae he shares supreme command of the Greek troops with his brother Menelaus As a commander he often lacks good public relations skills as shown by his feud with Achilles (book 1) and by his ill-considered strategy of suggesting that all the troops go home (book 2) Name this Greek Trojan War hero that upon his return home was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover- Agamemnon 2 The king of Sparta and the husband of Helen He tries to win Helen back by fighting Paris in single combat but Aphrodite carried Paris off when it seems that which Greek Trojan war hero would win the battle - Menelaus 3 This swift-footed warrior is the greatest on the Greek side His father is Peleus a great warrior in his own right and his mother is Thetis a sea nymph Which Greek Trojan War hero kills Hector but is killed by a poisoned arrow in the heel the only vulnerable place on his body - Achilles 4 Achilles foster brother and closest friend Although he is a formidable hero he is valued for his kind and gentle nature Who is killed by Hector while wearing the armor of Achilles- Patroclus 5 In his day of glory he kills Pandarus and wounds Aeneas before taking on the gods He stabs Aphrodite in the wrist and with Athena as his charioteer wounds Ares in the stomach Along with Odysseus he also conducts a successful night raid against King Rhesus- Diomedes 6 This son of Laertes is known for his cleverness and glib tongue His accomplishments include a successful night raid against King Rhesus winning the armor of Achilles and engineering the famous Trojan Horse Whose ten-year trip home to Ithaca is the subject of the Odyssey ndash Odysseus Trojans 1 The son of Priam and Hecuba and a favorite of Apollo He kills Patroclus who is wearing the armor of his friend Achilles Which Trojan War hero is killed by Achilles to avenge the death of Patroclus- Hector

2 The son of Priam and Hecuba he is destined to be the ruin of his country He fulfills this destiny by accepting a bribe when asked to judge which of three goddesses is the fairest When he awards Aphrodite she repays him by granting him the most beautiful woman in the world Helen (who is already married to Menelaus) Name the Trojan prince who kills Achilles with an arrow to the heel - Paris 3 The king of Troy he has 50 sons and 12 daughters with his wife Hecuba plus at least 42 more children with various concubines Neoptolemus the son of Achilles kills him in front of his wife and daughters during the siege of Troy Name that Trojan king - Priam 4 The wife of Priam she suffers the loss of most of her children but survives the fall of Troy She is later turned into a dog Name this Trojan queen -Hecuba 5 The wife of Hector and mother of Astyanax she futilely warns Hector about the war then sees both her husband and son killed by the Greeks After the war she is made concubine to Neoptolemus Name this Trojan woman who later marries the Trojan prophet Helenus - Andromache 6 This daughter of Priam and Hecuba has an affair with the god Apollo who grants her the gift of prophecy Unable to revoke the gift after they quarrel Apollo curses her by preventing anyone from believing her predictions Name the Trojan princess who is later killed by the wife of Agamemnon - Cassandra 7 Yet another son of Priam and Hecuba this priest of Apollo doubts the merits of bringing the Trojan horse into the city Later while sacrificing a bull two serpents from the sea crush both him and his two young sons Name this Trojan priest - Laocoon BRITISH MONARCHS

1 This British monarch brought England into both the Renaissance and the Reformation Originally a supporter of the Catholic Church he named himself head of the Church of England in 1533 so that he could divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn - Henry VIII

2 This British monarch foiled attempts at her throne by Spanish king Philip II and Mary Queen of Scots Her reign saw great expansion of the English navy and the emergence of William Shakespeare but when she died the Crown went to Scottish king James VI the son of Mary Queen of Scots Name this monarch who was known as the Virgin Queen ndashElizabeth I 3 This British monarch suffered from porphyria causing the madness that ultimately led to the Regency period (1811-1820) of his son Name the monarch that lost America in the Revolutionary War - George III 4 The longest-reigning monarch in British history she relinquished much of the remaining royal power both to her husband Albert and to her favored prime ministers Lord Melbourne Robert Peel and Benjamin Disraeli Name this British monarch - Victoria 5 Duke of Normandy from 1035 he was promised succession to the throne by Edward the Confessor but when Edward gave the throne to Harold II in 1066 he invaded England killing Harold and defeating the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings Name this British monarch - William I (the Conqueror) 6 This British monarch asked Parliament for money to fight costly foreign wars and when Parliament balked he had to sign the Petition of Right From 1630 to 1641 he tried to rule solo but financial troubles forced him to call Parliament His attempt to reform the Scottish church led to the English Civil War After is defeat he was convicted of treason and executed England became a Commonwealth with Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector Name the last absolute English monarch - Charles I 7 This British monarch claimed the English throne upon the death of Elizabeth I A believer in absolutism he dissolved Parliament from 1611 to 1621 favoring ministers Robert Cecil and the Duke of Buckingham instead His rule saw English expansion into North America through royal charter in Virginia and Puritan protest in Massachusetts Name the great-great-grandson of Henry VII - James I 8 He was made Duke of Gloucester in 1461 when his brother Edward IV deposed the Lancastrian king Henry VI as part of the Wars of the Roses Upon Edwards death in 1483 he served as regent to his nephew Edward V but had the boy murdered in the Tower of London After two years of rule this

British monarch died at the hands of Henry Tudors Lancastrian ending the Wars of the Roses- Richard III 9 This British monarch and her husband Prince Philip Mountbatten have traveled the globe representing British interests Marital failures by her sons Charles (the Prince of Wales) and Andrew have plagued her reign Name this representative of the modern ceremonial monarchy - Elizabeth II 10 This British monarch invaded England in 1153 While king he developed the common law and due process but fought with Thomas (agrave) Becket over submission to the Pope Henry had Becket executed in 1170 but performed penance at Canterbury Name this British monarch - Henry II 11 Third son of Henry II he spent only five months of his reign in England He went on the Third Crusade to Jerusalem winning many victories in the Holy Land but on his way back was captured and ransomed by Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI He also fought Philip II in Normandy and died while defending his possessions in Aquitaine Name this British monarch - Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) 12 Actually just the King of Wessex in southwestern England this British monarch expelled the rival Danes from the Mercian town of London in 886 eventually conquering most of the Danelaw territory He also kept England from the worst of the Dark Ages by encouraging his bishops to foster literacy Name this British monarch - Alfred the Great RUSSIAN TSARS 1 His Grand Embassy to Europe enabled him to learn about Western life because of this he later invited Western artisans to come to Russia required the boyars to shave their beards and wear Western clothing and even founded a new capital St Petersburg--his window on the West He also led his country in the Great Northern War created a Table of Ranks for the nobility and reformed the bureaucracy and army Name the Russian tsar famous for both his push for Westernization and for his boisterous personality - Peter I 2 This Russian tsar wasnt really a Russian at all she was born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst and was chosen as the bride of the future Peter III She had thoroughly Russianized herself by the time Peter became tsar and soon had him deposed She corresponded with Enlightenment philosophes granted charters of rights and obligations to the nobility and the towns oversaw the partition of Poland and expanded the empire Name the Russian tsar that is well known for her extravagant love life - Catherine II 3 The last of the Romanovs this Russian tsar ruled until his overthrow in the February Revolution of 1917 He is usually seen as both a kind man who loved his family and an incapable monarch who helped bring about the end of the tsarist state He led his country through two disastrous wars the Russo-Japanese War and World War I Name the Russian tsar that was shot in 1918 - Nicholas II 4 This Russian tsar embarked on a program of Great Reforms soon after taking the throne near the end of the Crimean War The most famous part of his program was the serf emancipation of 1861--a reform which occurred almost simultaneously with the end of American slavery But he also introduced a system of local governing bodies called zemstvos tried to increase the rule of law in the court system eased censorship and reorganized the army Name the Russian tsar that was assassinated in 1881 - Alexander II CIVIL WAR BATTLES1

1 In order to claim true independence from the Union Jefferson Davis decided that the Union forts needed to be taken a Confederate force under PGT Beauregard ordered the small Union garrison controlled by Major Robert Anderson to surrender Anderson refused shots were fired and the Union commander surrendered two days later with only one soldier killed The Union made two unsuccessful attempts to recapture the fort with ironclad ships in 1863 but Confederate forces finally abandoned Sumter when they left Charleston in February 1865 Name this Civil War battle - Fort Sumter

2 Fought at a creek near Manassas Virginia this was the first major showdown of the Civil war Beauregard led an army against Union commander Irwin McDowell The Confederacy routed the Union when Thomas Jacksons brigade held the left line at Henry House Hill Name this Civil War battle that had congressmen expecting to watch a Union victory fleeing in panic back to DC Name this Civil War battle - First Bull Run First Manassas

3 A channel in southeastern Virginia was the site of the first major fight between two ironclad ships The Confederates raised an old wooden boat the Merrimack and fit it with ten guns and iron armor plates Renaming the Virginia The Union countered by constructing a large oval with a rotating gun called the Monitor The Virginia tore through Union wooden ships but when the Monitor arrived the two ironclads fought to a stalemate - thus the Union maintained its blockade Name this Civil War battle - Hampton Roads

4 This Civil War battle was named after a church in Pittsburg Landing Tennessee Confederate commander Albert Sidney Johnston led a force north from Mississippi Ulysses S Grant who had just captured Fort Donelson brought five Union divisions to face him At first the South led the attack but Union troops held the Hornets Nest for hours killing Johnston in the process Beauregard took over but by the second day Northern Generals Don Carlos Buell and Lew Wallace brought reinforcements causing the Confederates to retreat Name this Civil War battle - Shiloh Pittsburg Landing

5 Union commander George McClellan devised this plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond Virginia by sending 110000 men up the peninsula between the York and James rivers Advised of Northern maneuvers Southern commander Joseph Johnston detached a force to defend the peninsula He also sent a small unit that crushed Union reinforcements in the West Name this civil war campaign leading to McClellans retreat down the James toward Harrisons Landing-Peninsular Campaign

6 This resounding victory by Lee and Jackson pushed Union forces back to Washington DC President Lincoln had replaced McClellan with John Pope who would supposedly be united with the Army of the Potomac commanded by Henry Halleck Lee maneuvered Jacksons troops behind those of Pope Jackson detained Popes men at Manassas while Lee sent James Longstreet to crush Popes left flank Hallecks army was supposed to land at Aquia but instead retreated to defend Washington ceding all of Virginia to the Confederacy and marking a low point in the Union effort Name this civil war battle - Second Bull Run Second Manassas

7 The bloodiest day of the Civil War 12000 Union men lost their lives as did 10000 Confederates Lee planned a northern invasion into Maryland but a Union soldier discovered those battle plans wrapped around three cigars Instead Lee marched his army toward Sharpsburg Creek Meanwhile Jacksons forces captured Harpers Ferry Virginia and rushed to reunite with Lee McClellan had a large enough force to capture the entire rebel army but did not use all of his troops nor coordinate one solid attack This civil war battle was actually a series of five skirmishes -Antietam Sharpsburg

8 At this site about 50 miles south of Washington Union commander Ambrose Burnside tried to take the initiative and cross the Rappahannock River in a march toward Richmond He met Lees forces which were well entrenched in the hills behind the town With a superior position Lee routed the Union army 13000 Northern troops fell there while only 5000 Confederates were killed After the battle Burnsides troops were forced to make The Mud March up the Rappahannock made foul by weather and dead and wounded bodies Name this civil war battle -Fredericksburg Maryes Heights 9 This campaign was launched by Grant to take control of the Mississippi River and cut off the western Confederate states from the east Grant ordered regiments led by James McPherson John McClernand and William Tecumseh Sherman through bayous west of the Mississippi to Hard Times Name this civil war battle that caused Johnston to withdraw east - Vicksburg Campaign 10 This battle is known as a victory for the South but with great cost as Stonewall Jackson lost his life Lincoln called on Fighting Joe Hooker to command the Union army Hooker took a force of 134000 and provoked Lee and Jacksons 60000 men into battle Jackson moved around Hooker and counterattacked the Union flank on May 2 That night while Jackson was on reconnaissance his own men mistook him for a Northerner and shot him Name the civil war battle that followed with the death of Jackson eight days later -Chancellorsville 11 This marked both the farthest northward advancement by the Confederacy and the turning point that led to its defeat Lee along with Longstreet AP Hill and Richard Ewell led the southern

Pennsylvania attack George Meade replaced Hooker as leader of the Union side Southern forces drove Northerners through the town but could not secure key positions at Cemetery Ridge and Little and Big Round Tops Low on supplies on the final day Lee ordered an attack on the center George Pickett led his famous charge through open fields where the Union mowed down one-third of his 15000 men The Confederates lost 20000 and Lee retreated to Virginia Name this civil war battle - Gettysburg AMERICAN WAR SHIPS

1 USS Constitution Better known as Old Ironsides the Constitution was one of the first six ships commissioned by the US Navy after the American Revolution Launched from Boston in 1797 the Constitution first saw action as the squadron flagship in the Quasi-War with France from 1799-1801 and also fought in the Barbary War and the War of 1812 She later served many years as the nations flagship in the Mediterranean Retired from active duty in 1846 the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides saved her from the scrap yard--she became the training ship of the US Naval Academy until the mid-1880s She became the symbolic flagship of the US Navy in 1940 and is now a floating museum in Boston

2 USS Chesapeake The USS Chesapeake was built at what is now the Norfolk Naval Shipyard between 1798 and 1799 The Chesapeake was attacked by the British Leopard off Cape Henry in 1807 (which led to the duel between Commodores James Barron and Stephen Decatur) one of the causes of the War of 1812 She was captured off Boston in 1813 by the British frigate Shannon on which occasion her commander Capt James Lawrence uttered his celebrated dying words Dont give up the ship which have become a tradition in the US Navy 3 USS LawrenceUSS Niagara Oliver Hazard Perrys decisive victory over the British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10 1813 ensured American control of the Great Lakes during the War of 1812 In the battle Perrys flagship the USS Lawrence was severely damaged and four-fifths of her crew killed or wounded Commodore Perry and a small contingent rowed a half-mile through heavy gunfire to another American ship the USS Niagara Boarding and taking command he brought her into battle and soundly defeated the British fleet Perry summarized the fight in a now-famous message to General William Henry Harrison We have met the enemy and they are ours 4 USS MonitorCSS Virginia [aka USS Merrimack] After departing Union forces burned the Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk in April 1861 yard workers salvaged the USS Merrimack and converted her into the ironclad CSS Virginia On March 8 1862 the CSS Virginia left the shipyard and sank two Union warships in Hampton Roads The Souths ironclad rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and set fire to and sank the USS Congress one of the nations first six frigates The Monitor was sent to end its rampage and the two ironclads battled for 3 12 hours before the Virginia ran aground in its attempt to ram the USS Minnesota Visibly damaged the Virginia retreated and the Monitor withdrew to protect the Minnesota The Confederates destroyed the Virginia soon after to prevent her capture by Union forces The Monitor victorious in her first battle sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras NC The shipwreck is a national underwater sanctuary under the purview of the NOAA 5 USS Maine (ACR-1) [Second class] The first Maine a second-class armored battleship was launched in 1889 A part of the Great White Fleet in 1897 the Maine sailed for Havana to show the flag and protect American citizens Shortly after 940 pm on February 15 1898 the battleship was torn apart by a tremendous explosion The court of inquiry convened in March was unable to obtain evidence associating the blast with any person or persons but public opinion--inflamed by yellow journalism--was such that the Maine disaster led to the declaration of war on Spain on April 21 1898 6 USS Arizona (BB-39) [Pennsylvania class] A lead ship of the honor escort for President Wilsons trip to France in 1918 she was on Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor when Japanese aircraft appeared just before 800 am on Sunday December 7 1941 The Arizona came under attack almost immediately and at about 810 was hit by an 800-kilogram bomb just forward of turret two on the starboard side Within a few seconds the forward powder magazines exploded killing 1177 of the crew and the ship sank to the bottom of the harbor In 1962 the USS Arizona memorial opened and is now administered by the National Park Service

7 USS Missouri (BB-63) [Iowa class] The fourth USS Missouri was the last battleship completed by the United States she was laid down January 6 1941 by New York Naval Shipyard The Missouri was launched January 29 1944 and received her sponsorship from Miss Margaret Truman daughter of then Missouri Senator Harry S Truman Commissioned on June 11 1944 the Mighty Mo as she became known sailed for the Pacific and quickly became the flagship of Admiral Halsey which is why she was chosen as the site of the formal surrender of the Empire of Japan on the morning of September 1 1945 8 USS Nautilus (SSN-571) [Nautilus class] In 1951 Congress authorized construction of the worlds first nuclear-powered submarine On December 12 of that year the Navy Department announced that she would be the sixth ship of the fleet to bear the name Nautilus She was launched on January 21 1954 Eight months later on September 30 1954 the Nautilus became the first commissioned nuclear-powered ship in the US Navy On the morning of January 17 1955 Nautilus Cmdr Wilkinson signaled Underway on Nuclear Power In 1958 she departed Pearl Harbor under top secret orders to conduct Operation Sunshine the first crossing of the North Pole by a ship THINGS YOU HAVE TO KNOW FIVE OF

1 The Waste Land The five parts of T S Eliots 1922 masterpiece The Waste Land are The Burial of the Dead A Game of Chess The Fire Sermon Death By Water and What the Thunder Said

2 Mitosis The five stages of the biological process of mitosis (the production of new body cells from existing ones) are interphase prophase metaphase anaphase and telophase Interphase is not technically a part of mitosis but it still sometimes finds its way in 3 Nobel Prize Winners The five original winners of Nobel Prizes (1901) were Wilhelm Roumlntgen (physics for the discovery of X rays) Jacobus Henricus van t Hoff (chemistry for laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure) Emil Adolf von Behring (physiology or medicine for his serum therapy remedy for diphtheria) Sully Prudhomme (literature for his idealistic poetry) and Henri Dunant and Freacutedeacuteric Passy (peace for founding the International Red Cross and the first French peace society respectively) 4 The Mighty Handful Five nationalist Russian composers are often referred to as The Mighty Handful or The Five They are Modest Mussorgsky (1839 -1881) Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) Cesar Cui (1835-1918) and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) 5 D-Day The codenames for the five beaches attacked in Operation Overlord on D-Day are Gold Juno Sword Utah and Omaha The first three were attacked by British and Canadian forces while the latter two were assaulted by American troops 6 Orders of Architecture There are five classical orders of architecture a term that primarily refers to the design of the columns used in the building They are the Doric (simple used for the Parthenon) Ionic (fancier fluted with scrolls on their capitals) Corinthian (baroque fluted with acanthus-like leaves for capitals) Tuscan (plain similar to Doric) and Composite (mixture of Ionic and Corinthian) The latter two orders are Roman developments the other three originated with the Greeks 7 Cooperstown The first five members elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame were Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Honus Wagner Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson 8 Spectral Lines Hydrogen produces an infinite series of spectral lines The first five of those series are named after scientists who observed them before it was known that they were actually examples of the same phenomenon From lowest to highest energy of the final level they are known as the Lyman Balmer Paschen Brackett and Pfund series Only the Balmer series exists in the visible spectrum 9 Platonic Solids There are only five regular polyhedra three-dimensional shapes with congruent regular polygons for sides These known as the Platonic solids are the tetrahedron (4 triangular sides) cube (6 square sides) octahedron (8 triangular sides) dodecahedron (12 pentagonal sides) and icosahedron (20 triangular sides) 10 Pillars of Islam Islam has five fundamental tenets of religious life a group known as the Pillars of Islam They are the declaration of faith (Shahadah) prayer (Salat) giving charity to those in need (Zakat) fasting during the month of Ramadan (Sawm) and the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) to be performed once in each adherents lifetime

WORKS OF LITERATURE 1 A tragedy by William Shakespeare probably written between 1599 and 1601 The play

set in Denmark recounts how a Prince exacts revenge on his uncle who has murdered his father the King and then took the throne and married his mother The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness from overwhelming grief to seething rage and explores themes of treachery revenge incest and moral corruption ndash Hamlet

2 Whose book The Bonfire of the Vanities contains 2343 exclamation points ndashTom Wolfersquos 3 A play written by William Shakespeare it is generally accepted to be Shakespeares last play

solely written by him Although listed as a comedy in the first Folio many modern editors have relabeled the play a romance First published in the First Folio of 1623 but generally dated to 1610-11 it did not attract a significant amount of attention before the closing of the theatres in 1642 and after the Restoration it attained great popularity only in adapted versions Theatre productions returned conclusively to the original Shakespearean text in the mid-nineteenth century ndash The Tempest

4 This work of literature is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the Greek language making it the first work of European literature The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence possible multiple authors The poem concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Troy ndash The Iliad

5 This novel written in 1851 by Herman Melville The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab Ishmael soon learns that Ahab does not mean to use the Pequod and her crew to hunt whales for market trade as whaling ships generally do Ahab seeks one specific whale Comparatively few whaling ships know of this whale and fewer yet have knowingly encountered the whale ndash Moby Dick

6 This work of literature is among the best-known of William Shakespeares works and is his shortest tragedy It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels and frequently adapted Often regarded as archetypal the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends For the plot Shakespeare drew loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland by Raphael Holinshed and that by the Scottish philosopher Hector Boece There are many superstitions centered on the belief the play is somehow cursed and many actors will not mention the name of the play aloud referring to it instead as the Scottish play ndash Macbeth

7 A French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire this novella tells the tale of young man who has been indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism but becomes disillusioned after witnessing and experiencing many great hardships With a plot similar to that of a more serious picaresque novel or bildungsroman the novel parodies many adventure and romance clicheacutes and the plights of the characters are described in a tone which is mordantly matter-of-fact Through the allegory of the novel Voltaire pokes fun at religion and theologians governments and armies philosophies and philosophers most visibly Voltaire rails against Leibniz and his optimism ndash Candide

8 In this novel written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1808 the protagonist of a classic German legend makes a pact with the Devil The tale is the basis for many literary artistic cinematic and musical works such as those by Christopher Marlowe Goethe Thomas Mann Hector Berlioz Franz Liszt and Charles Gounod The name Faust has come to stand for a charlatan alchemist (some claim astrologer and necromancer) whose pride and vanity lead to his doom ndash Faust

9 A play by William Shakespeare and written around the year 1603 revolves around four central characters Othello his wife Desdemona his lieutenant Cassio and his trusted advisor Iago Because of its varied themes mdash racism love jealousy and betrayal - the play remains relevant to the present day and is still very popular ndash Othello

10 A romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens Theseus and Hippolyta and with fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest The play is one of Shakespeares most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world ndash A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream

11 First published on 28 January 1813 is the most famous of Jane Austens novels and one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel The book is Jane Austens second published novel Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797 initially called First Impressions but was never published under that title Following revisions it was first published on 28 January 1813 Like both its predecessors Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey it was written in Steventon Hampshire where Austen lived in the rectory ndash Pride and Prejudice

AMERICAN HISTORY 1 Who orbited the earth three times in the Friendship 7 ndashJohn Glenn 2 Born in 1912 this Oklahoma born folk singer is known for such songs as The Land is Your Land and Blowin Down This long Dusty Road ndashWoody Guthrie 3 The Shenandoah Valley is located in which state- Virginia 4 During what year did the American Civil War come to an end -1865 5 What comic strip featured such characters as daisy Mae Fearless Fosdick and Gat Garson ndashLilrsquo Abner 6 What Ivy League school is located in New Haven ndashYale 7 In the world of automobile racing what does NASCAR stand for- National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing 8 Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake are both found in which state ndashNew York 9 Labor leader Cesar Chavez led the boycott of what Californian produce during the 1960s ndash Grapes 10 What killed over 2000 people in Johnstown Pennsylvania in 1889 ndasha flood 11 What Holocaust survivor and American author was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 ndash Elie Wiesel 12 What novel exploring the conflicts of mixed race man in America did James Weldon Johnson publish in 1912- The autobiography of an Ex-colored man 13 What acclaimed novelist was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil war and World War Two ndash Ernest Hemingway 14 What explorer sailing for the Netherlands explored the Hudson River in 1609 ndashHenry Hudson 15 Jonas Salk is best known for developing a vaccine against what disease ndashPolio 16 What is the highest mountain found in the United States ndashMt McKinley 17 What popular American song is sung to the tune of the old British drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven ndashThe Star Spangled Banner 18 After converting to Christainity who changed her name to Rebecca and traveled to Britain to meet the King of England ndashPocahontas 19 Who won a Grammy Award for the song From a Distance ndashBette Midler 20 voters in what southern state adopted a new flag in 2003 ndashGeorgia 21 What generalrsquos farewell speech included the now famous line ldquoold soldiers never die they just fade awayrdquo- General Douglas MacArthur 22 ldquoOperation Overlordrdquo was the code name for the invasion of what country ndashFrance 23 During three days of rioting in New York city in 1863 over 1000 people were killed What prompted the riots ndashdraft of union forces in the civil war 24 Who was the president of the confederate states of America during the civil war ndashJefferson Davis 25 What company was founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak in 1976 ndashapple computers 26 What John Steinbeck novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 ndashGrapes of Wrath 27 Who is best known for his painting American gothic ndashGrant Wood 28 What legendary back robber did the ldquolady in redrdquo betray to federal agents ndashJohn Dillinger 29 Who commanded the American forces in Vietnam until 1968 ndashGeneral William Westmoreland

30 Blondie and Dagwood have appeared in newspapers for over half a century Name their two children ndashalexander and cookie 31 Who won the battle of pea ridge ndashthe union 32 What was the first American city to host the summer Olympics ndashst louis (1904) 33 Lopez Orcas and Waldron all belong to what group of islands ndashSan Juan 34 Completed in 1825 what was nicknamed the ldquoBig Ditchrdquo ndashThe Erie Canal 35 What band leader was known as the ldquoMarch Kingrdquo ndashJohn Phillip Sousa 36 Where did the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific meet in 1869 creating the nationrsquos first transcontinental railroad ndashPromontory Utah 37 What feat did Captain Chuck Yeager accomplish in 1947 in the Bell X-1 ndashhe broke the speed of sound 38 Who was the first secretary of the treasury in the United States ndashAlexander Hamilton 39 What film is based on the lives of socialites claus and Sunny von Bulow ndashReversal of Fortune 40 Who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling ndashMajorie Kinnan Rawlings 41 What associated press correspondent was freed in 1991 after spending 2455 days in captivity ndashTerry Anderson 42 In 1913 the 16th amendment of the constitution was passed allowing the federal government to do what ndash tax personal income Countries and Their Capitals

Russia Moscow

Andorra Andorra LaVella

Austria Vienna

Belgium Brussels

Denmark Copenhagen

Finland Helsinki

France Paris

Germany Berlin

Greece Athens

Holy See (Vatican City)

Vatican City

Iceland Reykjavik

Ireland Dublin

Italy Rome

Liechtenstein

Vaduz

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Malta Valletta

Monaco Monaco

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Norway Oslo

Portugal Lisbon

San Marino San Marino

Spain Madrid

Sweden Stockholm

Switzerland Bern

United Kingdom

London

Albania Tirana

Armenia Yerevan

Azerbaijan Baku

Belarus Minsk

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Bulgaria Sofia

Croatia Zagreb

Czech Republic

Prague

Estonia Tallinn

Georgia Tbilisi

Hungary Budapest

Latvia Riga

Lithuania Vilnius

Macedonia Skopje

Moldova Chisinau

Poland Warsaw

Romania Bucharest

Serbia and Montenegro

Belgrade

Slovakia Bratislave

Slovenia Ljubjana

Ukraine Kiev

Cyprus Nicosia

Turkey Ankara

Scotland Edinburgh

Wales Cardiff

Northern Ireland

Belfast

States and Their Capitals

Alabama - Montgomery

Alaska - Juneau

Arizona - Phoenix

Arkansas - Little Rock

California - Sacramento

Colorado - Denver

Connecticut - Hartford

Delaware - Dover

Florida - Tallahassee

Georgia - Atlanta

Hawaii - Honolulu

Idaho - Boise

Illinois - Springfield

Indiana - Indianapolis

Iowa - Des Moines

Kansas - Topeka

Kentucky - Frankfort

Louisiana - Baton Rouge

Maine - Augusta

Maryland - Annapolis

Massachusetts - Boston

Michigan - Lansing

Minnesota - St Paul

Mississippi - Jackson

Missouri - Jefferson City

Montana - Helena

Nebraska - Lincoln

Nevada - Carson City

New Hampshire - Concord

New Jersey - Trenton

New Mexico - Santa Fe

New York - Albany

North Carolina - Raleigh

North Dakota - Bismarck

Ohio - Columbus

Oklahoma - Oklahoma City

Oregon - Salem

Pennsylvania - Harrisburg

Rhode Island - Providence

South Carolina - Columbia

South Dakota - Pierre

Tennessee - Nashville

Texas - Austin

Utah - Salt Lake City

Vermont - Montpelier

Virginia - Richmond

Washington - Olympia

West Virginia ndash Charleston

Wisconsin - Madison

Wyoming ndash Cheyenne

RANDOM KNOWLEDGE 1 Where are the Transvall and Orange Free State provinces ndashSouth Africa 2 What war did the Potsdam Conference follow ndashWorld War II 3 During his presidency the White House bought 12 tons of jelly beans from the Goelitz Candy

Company between January 1981 and September 1988 ndashRonald Reagan 4 What was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans ndashGeorge Elliot 5 He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Lepanto an injury of which he was very proud He had a

rivalry with his contemporary Lope de Vegas whom he regarded as an inferior writer Name this author who was in prison at Argamasilla in La Mancha when he created character such as Dulcinea Sancho Panza and don Quixote ndashMiguel De Cervantes

6 This nationrsquos flag like that of the US features seven horizontal alternating red and white stripes In the upper-left corner however where the US flag has stars this countryrsquos flag has a yellow cresecent moon and smaller sun on a blue field It shares borders with Thailand Indonesia and Brunei What is this Southeast Asian nation with capital at Kuala Lumpur ndashMalaysia

7 Their name comes from the Greek word for salt producer and these elements react with metals to form ionic halide salts They are all reactive with the reactivity decreasing down the group As typical non metals they have high electronegativities and ionization energies and form compounds by gaining an electron to complete a stable configuration What is this group of elements also known as group 17 which includes fluorine bromine and iodine ndashHalogens

8 To qualify for it one had to be male a US citizen (or at least have filed for citizenship) and either be the head of a family or over 21 years old It granted 160 acres of public land free of charge of settlers who agreed to stay at least five years and to cultivate their parcel What was this 1862 act which promoted the agricultural development of the west ndashHomestead Act

9 Alexander the Great sought out this wise man and upon finding him lying in a tub offered to give him whatever he wanted He wise man replied ldquoI want you to get out of my sunrdquo He earned the nickname ldquocyonrdquo meaning dog for his habit of wandering around naked and sleeping in dog houses Who was this Greek philosopher founder of the cynics who was said to search the earth with his lamp looking for an honest man-Diogenes

10 He was born in Bohemia and trained at the Vienna Conservatory eventually becoming conductor of the Prague Opera His second symphony was called the ldquoRessurectionrdquo while his first was known as the ldquoTitanrdquo In a sad irony one of his own children died soon after he completed his song cycle ldquoSongs on the Death of Childrenrdquo Name this composer whose ldquoSymphony of a Thousandrdquo doesnrsquot take quite that many musicians ndashGustav Mahler

11 The single name which designates each of these rulers is the Arabic word for tiger One invaded India and won a decisive victory at Paniput in 1526 The other constantly fights against his rival King Rataxas who happens to be a whino One was the founder of the Moghol Empire the other is King of the Elephants Give the common name ndashBabar

12 It is the second-most common neurological disorder trailing only strokes and affecting one percent of the population Attacks are intiated by abnormal synchronous electrical discharges from millions of neurons in the brain contracting skeletal muscles involuntarily In many cases the reticular activation system is depressed so the victim loses consciousness What is this disorder whose seizures are classified as grand mal or petit mal ndashEpilepsy

13 In the background are three arches which impose formal composition to the scene On the right are two women in draped gown resting their foreheads together sadly Just to the left of them a women hugs two small children In the center of the scene stands a man holding three swords and exhorting the three figures who face him their arms straight forward in a Roman salute This describes what 1785 painting by Jacques-Louis David (dah-veed) ndashThe Oath of Horatii

14 A poor Presbyterian minister from Leeds England he met Benjamin Franklin in 1767 and became interested in electricity and chemistry He began studying the vats of a nearby brewery fascinated by the different prosperities of the gases emitted by them One gas he noticed extinguished the burning chips of wood he had placed over it In 1774 he isolated the gas which he called ldquodephlogisticated airrdquo Name this British scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen ndashJoseph Priestly

15 It takes place on June 27th of an unnamed year The master of ceremonies is Mr Summers who is assisted by the postmaster Mr Graves Old Man Warner complains that the procedure is no longer carried out as formally as when he was a boy Only heads of families draw and when itrsquos done Bill Hutchinson finds himself holding the slip of paper with the black dot on it This is a brief description of what classic short story by Shirley Jackson ndashThe lottery

16 He was the only completely clean-shaven president to serve between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson He was also last president who was a Civil War veteran having served on the staff of a colonel named Rutherford B Hayes Governor of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 his campaign was directed by the king maker Mark Hanna Name this president assassinated in 1901 ndashWilliam McKinley

17 Evaluate the integral from negative 2 to 2 of sin3x with respect to x -0 18 Fly-by missions of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1980 and 1981 gave scientists more information about

this planet than had been accumulated since Galileo first viewed it telescopically in 1610 The missions discovered that the planetrsquos atmosphere is dynamic with wind storms gusting over 1500 kilometers per hour

Bonus Round 1 ANSWERS Letter Category ndash brought to you by the letter ldquoJrdquo 1 From 213 to 144 million years ago it was the second period of the Mesozoic era Answer Jurassic period 2 This is the SI unit of mechanical work Answer Joule 3 This American official was a co-author of the Federalist Papers Answer John Jay (accept J)

4 The seat of Duval County it is the largest city in the state of Florida Answer Jacksonville 5 A wicker basket is attached to the playerrsquos arm to hurl the small rubber ball in this popular Spanish sport similar to handball Answer Jai Alai (pron hindashlie) 6 This 20th century American artist was one of the leading proponents of pop art Answer Jasper Johns 7 The most well known novel of this 20th century Irish writer is Ulysses Answer James Joyce 8 This May 1916 battle was the only major sea battle between the British and Germans during World War 1 Answer Battle of Jutland 9 The pants tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle where they end in a snug cuff and are worn primarily for horseback riding Answer jodhpurs

10 One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity this emperorrsquos rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire and is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii or restoration of the empirerdquo Answer Justinian Bonus Round 2 This Letter Category brought to you by the letter ldquoGrdquo - KEY 1 This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue Answer George Gershwin 2 The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel Answer The Grapes of Wrath

3 650 miles off the Pacific coast these islands are owned by Ecuador Answer Galapagos Islands 4 Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s this was the public policy of Soviet openness Answer Glasnost 5 This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants Answer Gary 6 This man was the 18th President of the United States Answer Ulysses S Grant

7 Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US Answer Glaucoma 8 This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his ldquoback to Africardquo movement Answer Marcus Garvey 9 What is the official processed food of Georgia Answer Grits

10 What is the name of the famous search engine which changes with important dates throughout the year Answer Google Round 1 Toss-Up Questions

1 2 Charlotte Jacksonville Birmingham ndash place these southern cities in order from largest to smallest a Answer Jacksonville Charlotte Birmingham (213)

2 Written after its authors baptism in the Church of England the third section of this cycle of poems takes its name from a group of rocks off the English coast ldquoThe Dry Salvagesrdquo It also includes the sections ldquoBurnt Nortonrdquo ldquoEast Cokerrdquo and ldquoLittle Giddingrdquo For 10 points name this musically titled cycle of poems by T S Eliot ANSWER Four Quartets

3 John Kerry Shannon OBrien Mitt Romney ndash Which of these people was recently elected governor of Massachusetts Answer Mitt Romney (3)

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

8 This Ancient Book of Astronomy called Almagest was written in 150 AD byhellip- (Ptolemy) or Claudius Ptolemaeus 9 This author who in the 19th century had an American University named for him wrote many theological ad religious works such as Summa Theologica and was canonized in the year in 1323- Thomas Aquinas 10 This French Canadian wrote The Social Contract in 1762 stating ldquoA perfect society would be controlled by the general will of its populacerdquo- Jean-Jacque Rousseau 11 This second century philosopher and early mathematician wrote The Elements and is known as ldquoThe Father of Geometryrdquo- Euclid SUPREME COURT CASES 1 An African-American man bought a first-class ticket on the East Louisiana Railway He sat in the whites-only car in violation of an 1890 Louisiana law mandating separate accommodations He was convicted but appealed to the Supreme Court What 1896 case upheld the law that provided ldquoseparate but equalrdquo facilities - Plessy v Ferguson 2 On his final day in office John Adams signed commissions for 42 midnight judges His successor Thomas Jefferson opted to not deliver most of the commissions One appointee sued the new secretary of state to force the delivery of his commission The Judiciary Act of 1789 had granted the court original jurisdiction in such cases but the Constitution did not What 1803 supreme court case established the principle of judicial review the power of the court to nullify unconstitutional laws -Marbury v Madison 3 Norma McCorvey a rape victim sued Dallas County attorney for the right to an abortion Which court case struck down state anti-abortion laws as unconstitutionally vague and legalized abortion in the first trimester Roe v Wade 4 This suit was filed on behalf of a third grader who had to walk a mile to a blacks-only school when a whites-only school was much closer Which court case overturned Plessy v Ferguson and ruled that separate but equal facilities were not constitutional Brown v Board of Education of Topeka Kansas 5 After the Second Bank of the United States began calling in loans owned by the states one state passed a law taxing out-of-state banks The federal bank refused to pay The Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the right to establish the bank even though it was not expressly enumerated in the Constitution and also noted that since the power to tax was the power to destroy the state could not tax the bank without destroying federal sovereignty Name this 1819 Supreme Court case -McCulloch v Maryland 6 A Tennessee citizen sued the Tennessee secretary of state claiming that the states electoral districts had been drawn to grossly favor one political party The defendant argued that reapportionment issues were political not judicial matters but the court disagreed Which 1962 Supreme Court case established laws on voting districts -Baker v Carr 7 Subject of the book Gideons Trumpet this supreme court case decided that the constitution requires that all defendants be appointed council in all trials Name this 1963 Supreme Court case -Gideon v Wainwright 8 The Keating-Own Act prohibited the interstate sale of goods produced by child labor leading one citizen to sue the US attorney in Charlotte since his two sons would be put out of work Name the Supreme Court case that would later be overturned that ruled the federal government did not have the right to regulate child labor -Hammer v Dagenhart 9 In 1795 the Georgia legislature corruptly sold land along the Mississippi to private citizens in exchange for bribes The legislators were mostly defeated in the next elections and the incoming politicians voided the sales The Supreme Court held that the state legislature did not have the power to repeal the sale Name this supreme court case one of the earliest cases in which the Court struck down a state law - Fletcher v Peck OPERAS

10 Count Almaviva loves Rosina the ward of Dr Bartolo Figaro promises to help him win the girl Name this opera which is also based on a work of Pierre de Beaumarchais and is a prequel to The Marriage of Figaro - The Barber of Seville 11 This opera was based on a play by Friedrich von Schiller The is a 14th-century Swiss patriot who wishes to end Austrias domination of his country Name the opera where a man is forced to shoot an apple off his sonrsquos head ndashWilliam Tell 12 In this opera the main characters servant Leporello recounts his masters 2000-odd conquests in the Catalogue Aria The master also attempts to seduce Donna Anna but is discovered by her father the Commendatore whom he kills in a swordfight Name this opera where the main character is thrust into hell by his mistressrsquo deceased father - Don Giovanni 13 Jokanaan (John the Baptist) is imprisoned in the dungeons of King Herod Herods 15-year-old step-daughter becomes obsessed with the prisoners religious passion but is angered when he ignores her advances Later Herod orders her to dance for him but she refuses until he promises her anything she wants She asks for the head of Jokanaan and eventually receives it after which a horrified Herod orders her to be killed Name this opera- Salome 14 The operas prologue shows the chief adviser of Ivan the Terrible being pressured to assume the throne after Ivans two children die To expedite his rule he kills the younger son but is taunted by military defeats and dreams of the murdered son Name the opera that ends with the chief advisor dying in front of the assembled noblemen - Boris Godunov 15 This opera tells the story of four extremely poor friends who live in the French Quarter of Paris Marcello the artist Rodolfo the poet Colline the philosopher and Schaunard the musician Name this opera that formed the basis of the hit 1996 musical Rent by Jonathan Larson - La Bohegraveme 16 An American naval lieutenant is stationed in Nagasaki where he weds the young girl Cio-Cio-San He later returns to America leaving Cio-Cio-San to raise their son Trouble When he and his new American wife Kate return to Nagasaki Cio-Cio-San gives them her son and stabs herself Name this opera is based on a play by David Belasco - Madame Butterfly TROJAN WAR HEROES Greeks 1 The king of Mycenae he shares supreme command of the Greek troops with his brother Menelaus As a commander he often lacks good public relations skills as shown by his feud with Achilles (book 1) and by his ill-considered strategy of suggesting that all the troops go home (book 2) Name this Greek Trojan War hero that upon his return home was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover- Agamemnon 2 The king of Sparta and the husband of Helen He tries to win Helen back by fighting Paris in single combat but Aphrodite carried Paris off when it seems that which Greek Trojan war hero would win the battle - Menelaus 3 This swift-footed warrior is the greatest on the Greek side His father is Peleus a great warrior in his own right and his mother is Thetis a sea nymph Which Greek Trojan War hero kills Hector but is killed by a poisoned arrow in the heel the only vulnerable place on his body - Achilles 4 Achilles foster brother and closest friend Although he is a formidable hero he is valued for his kind and gentle nature Who is killed by Hector while wearing the armor of Achilles- Patroclus 5 In his day of glory he kills Pandarus and wounds Aeneas before taking on the gods He stabs Aphrodite in the wrist and with Athena as his charioteer wounds Ares in the stomach Along with Odysseus he also conducts a successful night raid against King Rhesus- Diomedes 6 This son of Laertes is known for his cleverness and glib tongue His accomplishments include a successful night raid against King Rhesus winning the armor of Achilles and engineering the famous Trojan Horse Whose ten-year trip home to Ithaca is the subject of the Odyssey ndash Odysseus Trojans 1 The son of Priam and Hecuba and a favorite of Apollo He kills Patroclus who is wearing the armor of his friend Achilles Which Trojan War hero is killed by Achilles to avenge the death of Patroclus- Hector

2 The son of Priam and Hecuba he is destined to be the ruin of his country He fulfills this destiny by accepting a bribe when asked to judge which of three goddesses is the fairest When he awards Aphrodite she repays him by granting him the most beautiful woman in the world Helen (who is already married to Menelaus) Name the Trojan prince who kills Achilles with an arrow to the heel - Paris 3 The king of Troy he has 50 sons and 12 daughters with his wife Hecuba plus at least 42 more children with various concubines Neoptolemus the son of Achilles kills him in front of his wife and daughters during the siege of Troy Name that Trojan king - Priam 4 The wife of Priam she suffers the loss of most of her children but survives the fall of Troy She is later turned into a dog Name this Trojan queen -Hecuba 5 The wife of Hector and mother of Astyanax she futilely warns Hector about the war then sees both her husband and son killed by the Greeks After the war she is made concubine to Neoptolemus Name this Trojan woman who later marries the Trojan prophet Helenus - Andromache 6 This daughter of Priam and Hecuba has an affair with the god Apollo who grants her the gift of prophecy Unable to revoke the gift after they quarrel Apollo curses her by preventing anyone from believing her predictions Name the Trojan princess who is later killed by the wife of Agamemnon - Cassandra 7 Yet another son of Priam and Hecuba this priest of Apollo doubts the merits of bringing the Trojan horse into the city Later while sacrificing a bull two serpents from the sea crush both him and his two young sons Name this Trojan priest - Laocoon BRITISH MONARCHS

1 This British monarch brought England into both the Renaissance and the Reformation Originally a supporter of the Catholic Church he named himself head of the Church of England in 1533 so that he could divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn - Henry VIII

2 This British monarch foiled attempts at her throne by Spanish king Philip II and Mary Queen of Scots Her reign saw great expansion of the English navy and the emergence of William Shakespeare but when she died the Crown went to Scottish king James VI the son of Mary Queen of Scots Name this monarch who was known as the Virgin Queen ndashElizabeth I 3 This British monarch suffered from porphyria causing the madness that ultimately led to the Regency period (1811-1820) of his son Name the monarch that lost America in the Revolutionary War - George III 4 The longest-reigning monarch in British history she relinquished much of the remaining royal power both to her husband Albert and to her favored prime ministers Lord Melbourne Robert Peel and Benjamin Disraeli Name this British monarch - Victoria 5 Duke of Normandy from 1035 he was promised succession to the throne by Edward the Confessor but when Edward gave the throne to Harold II in 1066 he invaded England killing Harold and defeating the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings Name this British monarch - William I (the Conqueror) 6 This British monarch asked Parliament for money to fight costly foreign wars and when Parliament balked he had to sign the Petition of Right From 1630 to 1641 he tried to rule solo but financial troubles forced him to call Parliament His attempt to reform the Scottish church led to the English Civil War After is defeat he was convicted of treason and executed England became a Commonwealth with Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector Name the last absolute English monarch - Charles I 7 This British monarch claimed the English throne upon the death of Elizabeth I A believer in absolutism he dissolved Parliament from 1611 to 1621 favoring ministers Robert Cecil and the Duke of Buckingham instead His rule saw English expansion into North America through royal charter in Virginia and Puritan protest in Massachusetts Name the great-great-grandson of Henry VII - James I 8 He was made Duke of Gloucester in 1461 when his brother Edward IV deposed the Lancastrian king Henry VI as part of the Wars of the Roses Upon Edwards death in 1483 he served as regent to his nephew Edward V but had the boy murdered in the Tower of London After two years of rule this

British monarch died at the hands of Henry Tudors Lancastrian ending the Wars of the Roses- Richard III 9 This British monarch and her husband Prince Philip Mountbatten have traveled the globe representing British interests Marital failures by her sons Charles (the Prince of Wales) and Andrew have plagued her reign Name this representative of the modern ceremonial monarchy - Elizabeth II 10 This British monarch invaded England in 1153 While king he developed the common law and due process but fought with Thomas (agrave) Becket over submission to the Pope Henry had Becket executed in 1170 but performed penance at Canterbury Name this British monarch - Henry II 11 Third son of Henry II he spent only five months of his reign in England He went on the Third Crusade to Jerusalem winning many victories in the Holy Land but on his way back was captured and ransomed by Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI He also fought Philip II in Normandy and died while defending his possessions in Aquitaine Name this British monarch - Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) 12 Actually just the King of Wessex in southwestern England this British monarch expelled the rival Danes from the Mercian town of London in 886 eventually conquering most of the Danelaw territory He also kept England from the worst of the Dark Ages by encouraging his bishops to foster literacy Name this British monarch - Alfred the Great RUSSIAN TSARS 1 His Grand Embassy to Europe enabled him to learn about Western life because of this he later invited Western artisans to come to Russia required the boyars to shave their beards and wear Western clothing and even founded a new capital St Petersburg--his window on the West He also led his country in the Great Northern War created a Table of Ranks for the nobility and reformed the bureaucracy and army Name the Russian tsar famous for both his push for Westernization and for his boisterous personality - Peter I 2 This Russian tsar wasnt really a Russian at all she was born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst and was chosen as the bride of the future Peter III She had thoroughly Russianized herself by the time Peter became tsar and soon had him deposed She corresponded with Enlightenment philosophes granted charters of rights and obligations to the nobility and the towns oversaw the partition of Poland and expanded the empire Name the Russian tsar that is well known for her extravagant love life - Catherine II 3 The last of the Romanovs this Russian tsar ruled until his overthrow in the February Revolution of 1917 He is usually seen as both a kind man who loved his family and an incapable monarch who helped bring about the end of the tsarist state He led his country through two disastrous wars the Russo-Japanese War and World War I Name the Russian tsar that was shot in 1918 - Nicholas II 4 This Russian tsar embarked on a program of Great Reforms soon after taking the throne near the end of the Crimean War The most famous part of his program was the serf emancipation of 1861--a reform which occurred almost simultaneously with the end of American slavery But he also introduced a system of local governing bodies called zemstvos tried to increase the rule of law in the court system eased censorship and reorganized the army Name the Russian tsar that was assassinated in 1881 - Alexander II CIVIL WAR BATTLES1

1 In order to claim true independence from the Union Jefferson Davis decided that the Union forts needed to be taken a Confederate force under PGT Beauregard ordered the small Union garrison controlled by Major Robert Anderson to surrender Anderson refused shots were fired and the Union commander surrendered two days later with only one soldier killed The Union made two unsuccessful attempts to recapture the fort with ironclad ships in 1863 but Confederate forces finally abandoned Sumter when they left Charleston in February 1865 Name this Civil War battle - Fort Sumter

2 Fought at a creek near Manassas Virginia this was the first major showdown of the Civil war Beauregard led an army against Union commander Irwin McDowell The Confederacy routed the Union when Thomas Jacksons brigade held the left line at Henry House Hill Name this Civil War battle that had congressmen expecting to watch a Union victory fleeing in panic back to DC Name this Civil War battle - First Bull Run First Manassas

3 A channel in southeastern Virginia was the site of the first major fight between two ironclad ships The Confederates raised an old wooden boat the Merrimack and fit it with ten guns and iron armor plates Renaming the Virginia The Union countered by constructing a large oval with a rotating gun called the Monitor The Virginia tore through Union wooden ships but when the Monitor arrived the two ironclads fought to a stalemate - thus the Union maintained its blockade Name this Civil War battle - Hampton Roads

4 This Civil War battle was named after a church in Pittsburg Landing Tennessee Confederate commander Albert Sidney Johnston led a force north from Mississippi Ulysses S Grant who had just captured Fort Donelson brought five Union divisions to face him At first the South led the attack but Union troops held the Hornets Nest for hours killing Johnston in the process Beauregard took over but by the second day Northern Generals Don Carlos Buell and Lew Wallace brought reinforcements causing the Confederates to retreat Name this Civil War battle - Shiloh Pittsburg Landing

5 Union commander George McClellan devised this plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond Virginia by sending 110000 men up the peninsula between the York and James rivers Advised of Northern maneuvers Southern commander Joseph Johnston detached a force to defend the peninsula He also sent a small unit that crushed Union reinforcements in the West Name this civil war campaign leading to McClellans retreat down the James toward Harrisons Landing-Peninsular Campaign

6 This resounding victory by Lee and Jackson pushed Union forces back to Washington DC President Lincoln had replaced McClellan with John Pope who would supposedly be united with the Army of the Potomac commanded by Henry Halleck Lee maneuvered Jacksons troops behind those of Pope Jackson detained Popes men at Manassas while Lee sent James Longstreet to crush Popes left flank Hallecks army was supposed to land at Aquia but instead retreated to defend Washington ceding all of Virginia to the Confederacy and marking a low point in the Union effort Name this civil war battle - Second Bull Run Second Manassas

7 The bloodiest day of the Civil War 12000 Union men lost their lives as did 10000 Confederates Lee planned a northern invasion into Maryland but a Union soldier discovered those battle plans wrapped around three cigars Instead Lee marched his army toward Sharpsburg Creek Meanwhile Jacksons forces captured Harpers Ferry Virginia and rushed to reunite with Lee McClellan had a large enough force to capture the entire rebel army but did not use all of his troops nor coordinate one solid attack This civil war battle was actually a series of five skirmishes -Antietam Sharpsburg

8 At this site about 50 miles south of Washington Union commander Ambrose Burnside tried to take the initiative and cross the Rappahannock River in a march toward Richmond He met Lees forces which were well entrenched in the hills behind the town With a superior position Lee routed the Union army 13000 Northern troops fell there while only 5000 Confederates were killed After the battle Burnsides troops were forced to make The Mud March up the Rappahannock made foul by weather and dead and wounded bodies Name this civil war battle -Fredericksburg Maryes Heights 9 This campaign was launched by Grant to take control of the Mississippi River and cut off the western Confederate states from the east Grant ordered regiments led by James McPherson John McClernand and William Tecumseh Sherman through bayous west of the Mississippi to Hard Times Name this civil war battle that caused Johnston to withdraw east - Vicksburg Campaign 10 This battle is known as a victory for the South but with great cost as Stonewall Jackson lost his life Lincoln called on Fighting Joe Hooker to command the Union army Hooker took a force of 134000 and provoked Lee and Jacksons 60000 men into battle Jackson moved around Hooker and counterattacked the Union flank on May 2 That night while Jackson was on reconnaissance his own men mistook him for a Northerner and shot him Name the civil war battle that followed with the death of Jackson eight days later -Chancellorsville 11 This marked both the farthest northward advancement by the Confederacy and the turning point that led to its defeat Lee along with Longstreet AP Hill and Richard Ewell led the southern

Pennsylvania attack George Meade replaced Hooker as leader of the Union side Southern forces drove Northerners through the town but could not secure key positions at Cemetery Ridge and Little and Big Round Tops Low on supplies on the final day Lee ordered an attack on the center George Pickett led his famous charge through open fields where the Union mowed down one-third of his 15000 men The Confederates lost 20000 and Lee retreated to Virginia Name this civil war battle - Gettysburg AMERICAN WAR SHIPS

1 USS Constitution Better known as Old Ironsides the Constitution was one of the first six ships commissioned by the US Navy after the American Revolution Launched from Boston in 1797 the Constitution first saw action as the squadron flagship in the Quasi-War with France from 1799-1801 and also fought in the Barbary War and the War of 1812 She later served many years as the nations flagship in the Mediterranean Retired from active duty in 1846 the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides saved her from the scrap yard--she became the training ship of the US Naval Academy until the mid-1880s She became the symbolic flagship of the US Navy in 1940 and is now a floating museum in Boston

2 USS Chesapeake The USS Chesapeake was built at what is now the Norfolk Naval Shipyard between 1798 and 1799 The Chesapeake was attacked by the British Leopard off Cape Henry in 1807 (which led to the duel between Commodores James Barron and Stephen Decatur) one of the causes of the War of 1812 She was captured off Boston in 1813 by the British frigate Shannon on which occasion her commander Capt James Lawrence uttered his celebrated dying words Dont give up the ship which have become a tradition in the US Navy 3 USS LawrenceUSS Niagara Oliver Hazard Perrys decisive victory over the British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10 1813 ensured American control of the Great Lakes during the War of 1812 In the battle Perrys flagship the USS Lawrence was severely damaged and four-fifths of her crew killed or wounded Commodore Perry and a small contingent rowed a half-mile through heavy gunfire to another American ship the USS Niagara Boarding and taking command he brought her into battle and soundly defeated the British fleet Perry summarized the fight in a now-famous message to General William Henry Harrison We have met the enemy and they are ours 4 USS MonitorCSS Virginia [aka USS Merrimack] After departing Union forces burned the Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk in April 1861 yard workers salvaged the USS Merrimack and converted her into the ironclad CSS Virginia On March 8 1862 the CSS Virginia left the shipyard and sank two Union warships in Hampton Roads The Souths ironclad rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and set fire to and sank the USS Congress one of the nations first six frigates The Monitor was sent to end its rampage and the two ironclads battled for 3 12 hours before the Virginia ran aground in its attempt to ram the USS Minnesota Visibly damaged the Virginia retreated and the Monitor withdrew to protect the Minnesota The Confederates destroyed the Virginia soon after to prevent her capture by Union forces The Monitor victorious in her first battle sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras NC The shipwreck is a national underwater sanctuary under the purview of the NOAA 5 USS Maine (ACR-1) [Second class] The first Maine a second-class armored battleship was launched in 1889 A part of the Great White Fleet in 1897 the Maine sailed for Havana to show the flag and protect American citizens Shortly after 940 pm on February 15 1898 the battleship was torn apart by a tremendous explosion The court of inquiry convened in March was unable to obtain evidence associating the blast with any person or persons but public opinion--inflamed by yellow journalism--was such that the Maine disaster led to the declaration of war on Spain on April 21 1898 6 USS Arizona (BB-39) [Pennsylvania class] A lead ship of the honor escort for President Wilsons trip to France in 1918 she was on Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor when Japanese aircraft appeared just before 800 am on Sunday December 7 1941 The Arizona came under attack almost immediately and at about 810 was hit by an 800-kilogram bomb just forward of turret two on the starboard side Within a few seconds the forward powder magazines exploded killing 1177 of the crew and the ship sank to the bottom of the harbor In 1962 the USS Arizona memorial opened and is now administered by the National Park Service

7 USS Missouri (BB-63) [Iowa class] The fourth USS Missouri was the last battleship completed by the United States she was laid down January 6 1941 by New York Naval Shipyard The Missouri was launched January 29 1944 and received her sponsorship from Miss Margaret Truman daughter of then Missouri Senator Harry S Truman Commissioned on June 11 1944 the Mighty Mo as she became known sailed for the Pacific and quickly became the flagship of Admiral Halsey which is why she was chosen as the site of the formal surrender of the Empire of Japan on the morning of September 1 1945 8 USS Nautilus (SSN-571) [Nautilus class] In 1951 Congress authorized construction of the worlds first nuclear-powered submarine On December 12 of that year the Navy Department announced that she would be the sixth ship of the fleet to bear the name Nautilus She was launched on January 21 1954 Eight months later on September 30 1954 the Nautilus became the first commissioned nuclear-powered ship in the US Navy On the morning of January 17 1955 Nautilus Cmdr Wilkinson signaled Underway on Nuclear Power In 1958 she departed Pearl Harbor under top secret orders to conduct Operation Sunshine the first crossing of the North Pole by a ship THINGS YOU HAVE TO KNOW FIVE OF

1 The Waste Land The five parts of T S Eliots 1922 masterpiece The Waste Land are The Burial of the Dead A Game of Chess The Fire Sermon Death By Water and What the Thunder Said

2 Mitosis The five stages of the biological process of mitosis (the production of new body cells from existing ones) are interphase prophase metaphase anaphase and telophase Interphase is not technically a part of mitosis but it still sometimes finds its way in 3 Nobel Prize Winners The five original winners of Nobel Prizes (1901) were Wilhelm Roumlntgen (physics for the discovery of X rays) Jacobus Henricus van t Hoff (chemistry for laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure) Emil Adolf von Behring (physiology or medicine for his serum therapy remedy for diphtheria) Sully Prudhomme (literature for his idealistic poetry) and Henri Dunant and Freacutedeacuteric Passy (peace for founding the International Red Cross and the first French peace society respectively) 4 The Mighty Handful Five nationalist Russian composers are often referred to as The Mighty Handful or The Five They are Modest Mussorgsky (1839 -1881) Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) Cesar Cui (1835-1918) and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) 5 D-Day The codenames for the five beaches attacked in Operation Overlord on D-Day are Gold Juno Sword Utah and Omaha The first three were attacked by British and Canadian forces while the latter two were assaulted by American troops 6 Orders of Architecture There are five classical orders of architecture a term that primarily refers to the design of the columns used in the building They are the Doric (simple used for the Parthenon) Ionic (fancier fluted with scrolls on their capitals) Corinthian (baroque fluted with acanthus-like leaves for capitals) Tuscan (plain similar to Doric) and Composite (mixture of Ionic and Corinthian) The latter two orders are Roman developments the other three originated with the Greeks 7 Cooperstown The first five members elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame were Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Honus Wagner Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson 8 Spectral Lines Hydrogen produces an infinite series of spectral lines The first five of those series are named after scientists who observed them before it was known that they were actually examples of the same phenomenon From lowest to highest energy of the final level they are known as the Lyman Balmer Paschen Brackett and Pfund series Only the Balmer series exists in the visible spectrum 9 Platonic Solids There are only five regular polyhedra three-dimensional shapes with congruent regular polygons for sides These known as the Platonic solids are the tetrahedron (4 triangular sides) cube (6 square sides) octahedron (8 triangular sides) dodecahedron (12 pentagonal sides) and icosahedron (20 triangular sides) 10 Pillars of Islam Islam has five fundamental tenets of religious life a group known as the Pillars of Islam They are the declaration of faith (Shahadah) prayer (Salat) giving charity to those in need (Zakat) fasting during the month of Ramadan (Sawm) and the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) to be performed once in each adherents lifetime

WORKS OF LITERATURE 1 A tragedy by William Shakespeare probably written between 1599 and 1601 The play

set in Denmark recounts how a Prince exacts revenge on his uncle who has murdered his father the King and then took the throne and married his mother The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness from overwhelming grief to seething rage and explores themes of treachery revenge incest and moral corruption ndash Hamlet

2 Whose book The Bonfire of the Vanities contains 2343 exclamation points ndashTom Wolfersquos 3 A play written by William Shakespeare it is generally accepted to be Shakespeares last play

solely written by him Although listed as a comedy in the first Folio many modern editors have relabeled the play a romance First published in the First Folio of 1623 but generally dated to 1610-11 it did not attract a significant amount of attention before the closing of the theatres in 1642 and after the Restoration it attained great popularity only in adapted versions Theatre productions returned conclusively to the original Shakespearean text in the mid-nineteenth century ndash The Tempest

4 This work of literature is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the Greek language making it the first work of European literature The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence possible multiple authors The poem concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Troy ndash The Iliad

5 This novel written in 1851 by Herman Melville The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab Ishmael soon learns that Ahab does not mean to use the Pequod and her crew to hunt whales for market trade as whaling ships generally do Ahab seeks one specific whale Comparatively few whaling ships know of this whale and fewer yet have knowingly encountered the whale ndash Moby Dick

6 This work of literature is among the best-known of William Shakespeares works and is his shortest tragedy It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels and frequently adapted Often regarded as archetypal the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends For the plot Shakespeare drew loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland by Raphael Holinshed and that by the Scottish philosopher Hector Boece There are many superstitions centered on the belief the play is somehow cursed and many actors will not mention the name of the play aloud referring to it instead as the Scottish play ndash Macbeth

7 A French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire this novella tells the tale of young man who has been indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism but becomes disillusioned after witnessing and experiencing many great hardships With a plot similar to that of a more serious picaresque novel or bildungsroman the novel parodies many adventure and romance clicheacutes and the plights of the characters are described in a tone which is mordantly matter-of-fact Through the allegory of the novel Voltaire pokes fun at religion and theologians governments and armies philosophies and philosophers most visibly Voltaire rails against Leibniz and his optimism ndash Candide

8 In this novel written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1808 the protagonist of a classic German legend makes a pact with the Devil The tale is the basis for many literary artistic cinematic and musical works such as those by Christopher Marlowe Goethe Thomas Mann Hector Berlioz Franz Liszt and Charles Gounod The name Faust has come to stand for a charlatan alchemist (some claim astrologer and necromancer) whose pride and vanity lead to his doom ndash Faust

9 A play by William Shakespeare and written around the year 1603 revolves around four central characters Othello his wife Desdemona his lieutenant Cassio and his trusted advisor Iago Because of its varied themes mdash racism love jealousy and betrayal - the play remains relevant to the present day and is still very popular ndash Othello

10 A romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens Theseus and Hippolyta and with fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest The play is one of Shakespeares most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world ndash A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream

11 First published on 28 January 1813 is the most famous of Jane Austens novels and one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel The book is Jane Austens second published novel Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797 initially called First Impressions but was never published under that title Following revisions it was first published on 28 January 1813 Like both its predecessors Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey it was written in Steventon Hampshire where Austen lived in the rectory ndash Pride and Prejudice

AMERICAN HISTORY 1 Who orbited the earth three times in the Friendship 7 ndashJohn Glenn 2 Born in 1912 this Oklahoma born folk singer is known for such songs as The Land is Your Land and Blowin Down This long Dusty Road ndashWoody Guthrie 3 The Shenandoah Valley is located in which state- Virginia 4 During what year did the American Civil War come to an end -1865 5 What comic strip featured such characters as daisy Mae Fearless Fosdick and Gat Garson ndashLilrsquo Abner 6 What Ivy League school is located in New Haven ndashYale 7 In the world of automobile racing what does NASCAR stand for- National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing 8 Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake are both found in which state ndashNew York 9 Labor leader Cesar Chavez led the boycott of what Californian produce during the 1960s ndash Grapes 10 What killed over 2000 people in Johnstown Pennsylvania in 1889 ndasha flood 11 What Holocaust survivor and American author was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 ndash Elie Wiesel 12 What novel exploring the conflicts of mixed race man in America did James Weldon Johnson publish in 1912- The autobiography of an Ex-colored man 13 What acclaimed novelist was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil war and World War Two ndash Ernest Hemingway 14 What explorer sailing for the Netherlands explored the Hudson River in 1609 ndashHenry Hudson 15 Jonas Salk is best known for developing a vaccine against what disease ndashPolio 16 What is the highest mountain found in the United States ndashMt McKinley 17 What popular American song is sung to the tune of the old British drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven ndashThe Star Spangled Banner 18 After converting to Christainity who changed her name to Rebecca and traveled to Britain to meet the King of England ndashPocahontas 19 Who won a Grammy Award for the song From a Distance ndashBette Midler 20 voters in what southern state adopted a new flag in 2003 ndashGeorgia 21 What generalrsquos farewell speech included the now famous line ldquoold soldiers never die they just fade awayrdquo- General Douglas MacArthur 22 ldquoOperation Overlordrdquo was the code name for the invasion of what country ndashFrance 23 During three days of rioting in New York city in 1863 over 1000 people were killed What prompted the riots ndashdraft of union forces in the civil war 24 Who was the president of the confederate states of America during the civil war ndashJefferson Davis 25 What company was founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak in 1976 ndashapple computers 26 What John Steinbeck novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 ndashGrapes of Wrath 27 Who is best known for his painting American gothic ndashGrant Wood 28 What legendary back robber did the ldquolady in redrdquo betray to federal agents ndashJohn Dillinger 29 Who commanded the American forces in Vietnam until 1968 ndashGeneral William Westmoreland

30 Blondie and Dagwood have appeared in newspapers for over half a century Name their two children ndashalexander and cookie 31 Who won the battle of pea ridge ndashthe union 32 What was the first American city to host the summer Olympics ndashst louis (1904) 33 Lopez Orcas and Waldron all belong to what group of islands ndashSan Juan 34 Completed in 1825 what was nicknamed the ldquoBig Ditchrdquo ndashThe Erie Canal 35 What band leader was known as the ldquoMarch Kingrdquo ndashJohn Phillip Sousa 36 Where did the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific meet in 1869 creating the nationrsquos first transcontinental railroad ndashPromontory Utah 37 What feat did Captain Chuck Yeager accomplish in 1947 in the Bell X-1 ndashhe broke the speed of sound 38 Who was the first secretary of the treasury in the United States ndashAlexander Hamilton 39 What film is based on the lives of socialites claus and Sunny von Bulow ndashReversal of Fortune 40 Who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling ndashMajorie Kinnan Rawlings 41 What associated press correspondent was freed in 1991 after spending 2455 days in captivity ndashTerry Anderson 42 In 1913 the 16th amendment of the constitution was passed allowing the federal government to do what ndash tax personal income Countries and Their Capitals

Russia Moscow

Andorra Andorra LaVella

Austria Vienna

Belgium Brussels

Denmark Copenhagen

Finland Helsinki

France Paris

Germany Berlin

Greece Athens

Holy See (Vatican City)

Vatican City

Iceland Reykjavik

Ireland Dublin

Italy Rome

Liechtenstein

Vaduz

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Malta Valletta

Monaco Monaco

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Norway Oslo

Portugal Lisbon

San Marino San Marino

Spain Madrid

Sweden Stockholm

Switzerland Bern

United Kingdom

London

Albania Tirana

Armenia Yerevan

Azerbaijan Baku

Belarus Minsk

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Bulgaria Sofia

Croatia Zagreb

Czech Republic

Prague

Estonia Tallinn

Georgia Tbilisi

Hungary Budapest

Latvia Riga

Lithuania Vilnius

Macedonia Skopje

Moldova Chisinau

Poland Warsaw

Romania Bucharest

Serbia and Montenegro

Belgrade

Slovakia Bratislave

Slovenia Ljubjana

Ukraine Kiev

Cyprus Nicosia

Turkey Ankara

Scotland Edinburgh

Wales Cardiff

Northern Ireland

Belfast

States and Their Capitals

Alabama - Montgomery

Alaska - Juneau

Arizona - Phoenix

Arkansas - Little Rock

California - Sacramento

Colorado - Denver

Connecticut - Hartford

Delaware - Dover

Florida - Tallahassee

Georgia - Atlanta

Hawaii - Honolulu

Idaho - Boise

Illinois - Springfield

Indiana - Indianapolis

Iowa - Des Moines

Kansas - Topeka

Kentucky - Frankfort

Louisiana - Baton Rouge

Maine - Augusta

Maryland - Annapolis

Massachusetts - Boston

Michigan - Lansing

Minnesota - St Paul

Mississippi - Jackson

Missouri - Jefferson City

Montana - Helena

Nebraska - Lincoln

Nevada - Carson City

New Hampshire - Concord

New Jersey - Trenton

New Mexico - Santa Fe

New York - Albany

North Carolina - Raleigh

North Dakota - Bismarck

Ohio - Columbus

Oklahoma - Oklahoma City

Oregon - Salem

Pennsylvania - Harrisburg

Rhode Island - Providence

South Carolina - Columbia

South Dakota - Pierre

Tennessee - Nashville

Texas - Austin

Utah - Salt Lake City

Vermont - Montpelier

Virginia - Richmond

Washington - Olympia

West Virginia ndash Charleston

Wisconsin - Madison

Wyoming ndash Cheyenne

RANDOM KNOWLEDGE 1 Where are the Transvall and Orange Free State provinces ndashSouth Africa 2 What war did the Potsdam Conference follow ndashWorld War II 3 During his presidency the White House bought 12 tons of jelly beans from the Goelitz Candy

Company between January 1981 and September 1988 ndashRonald Reagan 4 What was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans ndashGeorge Elliot 5 He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Lepanto an injury of which he was very proud He had a

rivalry with his contemporary Lope de Vegas whom he regarded as an inferior writer Name this author who was in prison at Argamasilla in La Mancha when he created character such as Dulcinea Sancho Panza and don Quixote ndashMiguel De Cervantes

6 This nationrsquos flag like that of the US features seven horizontal alternating red and white stripes In the upper-left corner however where the US flag has stars this countryrsquos flag has a yellow cresecent moon and smaller sun on a blue field It shares borders with Thailand Indonesia and Brunei What is this Southeast Asian nation with capital at Kuala Lumpur ndashMalaysia

7 Their name comes from the Greek word for salt producer and these elements react with metals to form ionic halide salts They are all reactive with the reactivity decreasing down the group As typical non metals they have high electronegativities and ionization energies and form compounds by gaining an electron to complete a stable configuration What is this group of elements also known as group 17 which includes fluorine bromine and iodine ndashHalogens

8 To qualify for it one had to be male a US citizen (or at least have filed for citizenship) and either be the head of a family or over 21 years old It granted 160 acres of public land free of charge of settlers who agreed to stay at least five years and to cultivate their parcel What was this 1862 act which promoted the agricultural development of the west ndashHomestead Act

9 Alexander the Great sought out this wise man and upon finding him lying in a tub offered to give him whatever he wanted He wise man replied ldquoI want you to get out of my sunrdquo He earned the nickname ldquocyonrdquo meaning dog for his habit of wandering around naked and sleeping in dog houses Who was this Greek philosopher founder of the cynics who was said to search the earth with his lamp looking for an honest man-Diogenes

10 He was born in Bohemia and trained at the Vienna Conservatory eventually becoming conductor of the Prague Opera His second symphony was called the ldquoRessurectionrdquo while his first was known as the ldquoTitanrdquo In a sad irony one of his own children died soon after he completed his song cycle ldquoSongs on the Death of Childrenrdquo Name this composer whose ldquoSymphony of a Thousandrdquo doesnrsquot take quite that many musicians ndashGustav Mahler

11 The single name which designates each of these rulers is the Arabic word for tiger One invaded India and won a decisive victory at Paniput in 1526 The other constantly fights against his rival King Rataxas who happens to be a whino One was the founder of the Moghol Empire the other is King of the Elephants Give the common name ndashBabar

12 It is the second-most common neurological disorder trailing only strokes and affecting one percent of the population Attacks are intiated by abnormal synchronous electrical discharges from millions of neurons in the brain contracting skeletal muscles involuntarily In many cases the reticular activation system is depressed so the victim loses consciousness What is this disorder whose seizures are classified as grand mal or petit mal ndashEpilepsy

13 In the background are three arches which impose formal composition to the scene On the right are two women in draped gown resting their foreheads together sadly Just to the left of them a women hugs two small children In the center of the scene stands a man holding three swords and exhorting the three figures who face him their arms straight forward in a Roman salute This describes what 1785 painting by Jacques-Louis David (dah-veed) ndashThe Oath of Horatii

14 A poor Presbyterian minister from Leeds England he met Benjamin Franklin in 1767 and became interested in electricity and chemistry He began studying the vats of a nearby brewery fascinated by the different prosperities of the gases emitted by them One gas he noticed extinguished the burning chips of wood he had placed over it In 1774 he isolated the gas which he called ldquodephlogisticated airrdquo Name this British scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen ndashJoseph Priestly

15 It takes place on June 27th of an unnamed year The master of ceremonies is Mr Summers who is assisted by the postmaster Mr Graves Old Man Warner complains that the procedure is no longer carried out as formally as when he was a boy Only heads of families draw and when itrsquos done Bill Hutchinson finds himself holding the slip of paper with the black dot on it This is a brief description of what classic short story by Shirley Jackson ndashThe lottery

16 He was the only completely clean-shaven president to serve between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson He was also last president who was a Civil War veteran having served on the staff of a colonel named Rutherford B Hayes Governor of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 his campaign was directed by the king maker Mark Hanna Name this president assassinated in 1901 ndashWilliam McKinley

17 Evaluate the integral from negative 2 to 2 of sin3x with respect to x -0 18 Fly-by missions of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1980 and 1981 gave scientists more information about

this planet than had been accumulated since Galileo first viewed it telescopically in 1610 The missions discovered that the planetrsquos atmosphere is dynamic with wind storms gusting over 1500 kilometers per hour

Bonus Round 1 ANSWERS Letter Category ndash brought to you by the letter ldquoJrdquo 1 From 213 to 144 million years ago it was the second period of the Mesozoic era Answer Jurassic period 2 This is the SI unit of mechanical work Answer Joule 3 This American official was a co-author of the Federalist Papers Answer John Jay (accept J)

4 The seat of Duval County it is the largest city in the state of Florida Answer Jacksonville 5 A wicker basket is attached to the playerrsquos arm to hurl the small rubber ball in this popular Spanish sport similar to handball Answer Jai Alai (pron hindashlie) 6 This 20th century American artist was one of the leading proponents of pop art Answer Jasper Johns 7 The most well known novel of this 20th century Irish writer is Ulysses Answer James Joyce 8 This May 1916 battle was the only major sea battle between the British and Germans during World War 1 Answer Battle of Jutland 9 The pants tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle where they end in a snug cuff and are worn primarily for horseback riding Answer jodhpurs

10 One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity this emperorrsquos rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire and is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii or restoration of the empirerdquo Answer Justinian Bonus Round 2 This Letter Category brought to you by the letter ldquoGrdquo - KEY 1 This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue Answer George Gershwin 2 The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel Answer The Grapes of Wrath

3 650 miles off the Pacific coast these islands are owned by Ecuador Answer Galapagos Islands 4 Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s this was the public policy of Soviet openness Answer Glasnost 5 This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants Answer Gary 6 This man was the 18th President of the United States Answer Ulysses S Grant

7 Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US Answer Glaucoma 8 This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his ldquoback to Africardquo movement Answer Marcus Garvey 9 What is the official processed food of Georgia Answer Grits

10 What is the name of the famous search engine which changes with important dates throughout the year Answer Google Round 1 Toss-Up Questions

1 2 Charlotte Jacksonville Birmingham ndash place these southern cities in order from largest to smallest a Answer Jacksonville Charlotte Birmingham (213)

2 Written after its authors baptism in the Church of England the third section of this cycle of poems takes its name from a group of rocks off the English coast ldquoThe Dry Salvagesrdquo It also includes the sections ldquoBurnt Nortonrdquo ldquoEast Cokerrdquo and ldquoLittle Giddingrdquo For 10 points name this musically titled cycle of poems by T S Eliot ANSWER Four Quartets

3 John Kerry Shannon OBrien Mitt Romney ndash Which of these people was recently elected governor of Massachusetts Answer Mitt Romney (3)

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

10 Count Almaviva loves Rosina the ward of Dr Bartolo Figaro promises to help him win the girl Name this opera which is also based on a work of Pierre de Beaumarchais and is a prequel to The Marriage of Figaro - The Barber of Seville 11 This opera was based on a play by Friedrich von Schiller The is a 14th-century Swiss patriot who wishes to end Austrias domination of his country Name the opera where a man is forced to shoot an apple off his sonrsquos head ndashWilliam Tell 12 In this opera the main characters servant Leporello recounts his masters 2000-odd conquests in the Catalogue Aria The master also attempts to seduce Donna Anna but is discovered by her father the Commendatore whom he kills in a swordfight Name this opera where the main character is thrust into hell by his mistressrsquo deceased father - Don Giovanni 13 Jokanaan (John the Baptist) is imprisoned in the dungeons of King Herod Herods 15-year-old step-daughter becomes obsessed with the prisoners religious passion but is angered when he ignores her advances Later Herod orders her to dance for him but she refuses until he promises her anything she wants She asks for the head of Jokanaan and eventually receives it after which a horrified Herod orders her to be killed Name this opera- Salome 14 The operas prologue shows the chief adviser of Ivan the Terrible being pressured to assume the throne after Ivans two children die To expedite his rule he kills the younger son but is taunted by military defeats and dreams of the murdered son Name the opera that ends with the chief advisor dying in front of the assembled noblemen - Boris Godunov 15 This opera tells the story of four extremely poor friends who live in the French Quarter of Paris Marcello the artist Rodolfo the poet Colline the philosopher and Schaunard the musician Name this opera that formed the basis of the hit 1996 musical Rent by Jonathan Larson - La Bohegraveme 16 An American naval lieutenant is stationed in Nagasaki where he weds the young girl Cio-Cio-San He later returns to America leaving Cio-Cio-San to raise their son Trouble When he and his new American wife Kate return to Nagasaki Cio-Cio-San gives them her son and stabs herself Name this opera is based on a play by David Belasco - Madame Butterfly TROJAN WAR HEROES Greeks 1 The king of Mycenae he shares supreme command of the Greek troops with his brother Menelaus As a commander he often lacks good public relations skills as shown by his feud with Achilles (book 1) and by his ill-considered strategy of suggesting that all the troops go home (book 2) Name this Greek Trojan War hero that upon his return home was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover- Agamemnon 2 The king of Sparta and the husband of Helen He tries to win Helen back by fighting Paris in single combat but Aphrodite carried Paris off when it seems that which Greek Trojan war hero would win the battle - Menelaus 3 This swift-footed warrior is the greatest on the Greek side His father is Peleus a great warrior in his own right and his mother is Thetis a sea nymph Which Greek Trojan War hero kills Hector but is killed by a poisoned arrow in the heel the only vulnerable place on his body - Achilles 4 Achilles foster brother and closest friend Although he is a formidable hero he is valued for his kind and gentle nature Who is killed by Hector while wearing the armor of Achilles- Patroclus 5 In his day of glory he kills Pandarus and wounds Aeneas before taking on the gods He stabs Aphrodite in the wrist and with Athena as his charioteer wounds Ares in the stomach Along with Odysseus he also conducts a successful night raid against King Rhesus- Diomedes 6 This son of Laertes is known for his cleverness and glib tongue His accomplishments include a successful night raid against King Rhesus winning the armor of Achilles and engineering the famous Trojan Horse Whose ten-year trip home to Ithaca is the subject of the Odyssey ndash Odysseus Trojans 1 The son of Priam and Hecuba and a favorite of Apollo He kills Patroclus who is wearing the armor of his friend Achilles Which Trojan War hero is killed by Achilles to avenge the death of Patroclus- Hector

2 The son of Priam and Hecuba he is destined to be the ruin of his country He fulfills this destiny by accepting a bribe when asked to judge which of three goddesses is the fairest When he awards Aphrodite she repays him by granting him the most beautiful woman in the world Helen (who is already married to Menelaus) Name the Trojan prince who kills Achilles with an arrow to the heel - Paris 3 The king of Troy he has 50 sons and 12 daughters with his wife Hecuba plus at least 42 more children with various concubines Neoptolemus the son of Achilles kills him in front of his wife and daughters during the siege of Troy Name that Trojan king - Priam 4 The wife of Priam she suffers the loss of most of her children but survives the fall of Troy She is later turned into a dog Name this Trojan queen -Hecuba 5 The wife of Hector and mother of Astyanax she futilely warns Hector about the war then sees both her husband and son killed by the Greeks After the war she is made concubine to Neoptolemus Name this Trojan woman who later marries the Trojan prophet Helenus - Andromache 6 This daughter of Priam and Hecuba has an affair with the god Apollo who grants her the gift of prophecy Unable to revoke the gift after they quarrel Apollo curses her by preventing anyone from believing her predictions Name the Trojan princess who is later killed by the wife of Agamemnon - Cassandra 7 Yet another son of Priam and Hecuba this priest of Apollo doubts the merits of bringing the Trojan horse into the city Later while sacrificing a bull two serpents from the sea crush both him and his two young sons Name this Trojan priest - Laocoon BRITISH MONARCHS

1 This British monarch brought England into both the Renaissance and the Reformation Originally a supporter of the Catholic Church he named himself head of the Church of England in 1533 so that he could divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn - Henry VIII

2 This British monarch foiled attempts at her throne by Spanish king Philip II and Mary Queen of Scots Her reign saw great expansion of the English navy and the emergence of William Shakespeare but when she died the Crown went to Scottish king James VI the son of Mary Queen of Scots Name this monarch who was known as the Virgin Queen ndashElizabeth I 3 This British monarch suffered from porphyria causing the madness that ultimately led to the Regency period (1811-1820) of his son Name the monarch that lost America in the Revolutionary War - George III 4 The longest-reigning monarch in British history she relinquished much of the remaining royal power both to her husband Albert and to her favored prime ministers Lord Melbourne Robert Peel and Benjamin Disraeli Name this British monarch - Victoria 5 Duke of Normandy from 1035 he was promised succession to the throne by Edward the Confessor but when Edward gave the throne to Harold II in 1066 he invaded England killing Harold and defeating the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings Name this British monarch - William I (the Conqueror) 6 This British monarch asked Parliament for money to fight costly foreign wars and when Parliament balked he had to sign the Petition of Right From 1630 to 1641 he tried to rule solo but financial troubles forced him to call Parliament His attempt to reform the Scottish church led to the English Civil War After is defeat he was convicted of treason and executed England became a Commonwealth with Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector Name the last absolute English monarch - Charles I 7 This British monarch claimed the English throne upon the death of Elizabeth I A believer in absolutism he dissolved Parliament from 1611 to 1621 favoring ministers Robert Cecil and the Duke of Buckingham instead His rule saw English expansion into North America through royal charter in Virginia and Puritan protest in Massachusetts Name the great-great-grandson of Henry VII - James I 8 He was made Duke of Gloucester in 1461 when his brother Edward IV deposed the Lancastrian king Henry VI as part of the Wars of the Roses Upon Edwards death in 1483 he served as regent to his nephew Edward V but had the boy murdered in the Tower of London After two years of rule this

British monarch died at the hands of Henry Tudors Lancastrian ending the Wars of the Roses- Richard III 9 This British monarch and her husband Prince Philip Mountbatten have traveled the globe representing British interests Marital failures by her sons Charles (the Prince of Wales) and Andrew have plagued her reign Name this representative of the modern ceremonial monarchy - Elizabeth II 10 This British monarch invaded England in 1153 While king he developed the common law and due process but fought with Thomas (agrave) Becket over submission to the Pope Henry had Becket executed in 1170 but performed penance at Canterbury Name this British monarch - Henry II 11 Third son of Henry II he spent only five months of his reign in England He went on the Third Crusade to Jerusalem winning many victories in the Holy Land but on his way back was captured and ransomed by Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI He also fought Philip II in Normandy and died while defending his possessions in Aquitaine Name this British monarch - Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) 12 Actually just the King of Wessex in southwestern England this British monarch expelled the rival Danes from the Mercian town of London in 886 eventually conquering most of the Danelaw territory He also kept England from the worst of the Dark Ages by encouraging his bishops to foster literacy Name this British monarch - Alfred the Great RUSSIAN TSARS 1 His Grand Embassy to Europe enabled him to learn about Western life because of this he later invited Western artisans to come to Russia required the boyars to shave their beards and wear Western clothing and even founded a new capital St Petersburg--his window on the West He also led his country in the Great Northern War created a Table of Ranks for the nobility and reformed the bureaucracy and army Name the Russian tsar famous for both his push for Westernization and for his boisterous personality - Peter I 2 This Russian tsar wasnt really a Russian at all she was born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst and was chosen as the bride of the future Peter III She had thoroughly Russianized herself by the time Peter became tsar and soon had him deposed She corresponded with Enlightenment philosophes granted charters of rights and obligations to the nobility and the towns oversaw the partition of Poland and expanded the empire Name the Russian tsar that is well known for her extravagant love life - Catherine II 3 The last of the Romanovs this Russian tsar ruled until his overthrow in the February Revolution of 1917 He is usually seen as both a kind man who loved his family and an incapable monarch who helped bring about the end of the tsarist state He led his country through two disastrous wars the Russo-Japanese War and World War I Name the Russian tsar that was shot in 1918 - Nicholas II 4 This Russian tsar embarked on a program of Great Reforms soon after taking the throne near the end of the Crimean War The most famous part of his program was the serf emancipation of 1861--a reform which occurred almost simultaneously with the end of American slavery But he also introduced a system of local governing bodies called zemstvos tried to increase the rule of law in the court system eased censorship and reorganized the army Name the Russian tsar that was assassinated in 1881 - Alexander II CIVIL WAR BATTLES1

1 In order to claim true independence from the Union Jefferson Davis decided that the Union forts needed to be taken a Confederate force under PGT Beauregard ordered the small Union garrison controlled by Major Robert Anderson to surrender Anderson refused shots were fired and the Union commander surrendered two days later with only one soldier killed The Union made two unsuccessful attempts to recapture the fort with ironclad ships in 1863 but Confederate forces finally abandoned Sumter when they left Charleston in February 1865 Name this Civil War battle - Fort Sumter

2 Fought at a creek near Manassas Virginia this was the first major showdown of the Civil war Beauregard led an army against Union commander Irwin McDowell The Confederacy routed the Union when Thomas Jacksons brigade held the left line at Henry House Hill Name this Civil War battle that had congressmen expecting to watch a Union victory fleeing in panic back to DC Name this Civil War battle - First Bull Run First Manassas

3 A channel in southeastern Virginia was the site of the first major fight between two ironclad ships The Confederates raised an old wooden boat the Merrimack and fit it with ten guns and iron armor plates Renaming the Virginia The Union countered by constructing a large oval with a rotating gun called the Monitor The Virginia tore through Union wooden ships but when the Monitor arrived the two ironclads fought to a stalemate - thus the Union maintained its blockade Name this Civil War battle - Hampton Roads

4 This Civil War battle was named after a church in Pittsburg Landing Tennessee Confederate commander Albert Sidney Johnston led a force north from Mississippi Ulysses S Grant who had just captured Fort Donelson brought five Union divisions to face him At first the South led the attack but Union troops held the Hornets Nest for hours killing Johnston in the process Beauregard took over but by the second day Northern Generals Don Carlos Buell and Lew Wallace brought reinforcements causing the Confederates to retreat Name this Civil War battle - Shiloh Pittsburg Landing

5 Union commander George McClellan devised this plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond Virginia by sending 110000 men up the peninsula between the York and James rivers Advised of Northern maneuvers Southern commander Joseph Johnston detached a force to defend the peninsula He also sent a small unit that crushed Union reinforcements in the West Name this civil war campaign leading to McClellans retreat down the James toward Harrisons Landing-Peninsular Campaign

6 This resounding victory by Lee and Jackson pushed Union forces back to Washington DC President Lincoln had replaced McClellan with John Pope who would supposedly be united with the Army of the Potomac commanded by Henry Halleck Lee maneuvered Jacksons troops behind those of Pope Jackson detained Popes men at Manassas while Lee sent James Longstreet to crush Popes left flank Hallecks army was supposed to land at Aquia but instead retreated to defend Washington ceding all of Virginia to the Confederacy and marking a low point in the Union effort Name this civil war battle - Second Bull Run Second Manassas

7 The bloodiest day of the Civil War 12000 Union men lost their lives as did 10000 Confederates Lee planned a northern invasion into Maryland but a Union soldier discovered those battle plans wrapped around three cigars Instead Lee marched his army toward Sharpsburg Creek Meanwhile Jacksons forces captured Harpers Ferry Virginia and rushed to reunite with Lee McClellan had a large enough force to capture the entire rebel army but did not use all of his troops nor coordinate one solid attack This civil war battle was actually a series of five skirmishes -Antietam Sharpsburg

8 At this site about 50 miles south of Washington Union commander Ambrose Burnside tried to take the initiative and cross the Rappahannock River in a march toward Richmond He met Lees forces which were well entrenched in the hills behind the town With a superior position Lee routed the Union army 13000 Northern troops fell there while only 5000 Confederates were killed After the battle Burnsides troops were forced to make The Mud March up the Rappahannock made foul by weather and dead and wounded bodies Name this civil war battle -Fredericksburg Maryes Heights 9 This campaign was launched by Grant to take control of the Mississippi River and cut off the western Confederate states from the east Grant ordered regiments led by James McPherson John McClernand and William Tecumseh Sherman through bayous west of the Mississippi to Hard Times Name this civil war battle that caused Johnston to withdraw east - Vicksburg Campaign 10 This battle is known as a victory for the South but with great cost as Stonewall Jackson lost his life Lincoln called on Fighting Joe Hooker to command the Union army Hooker took a force of 134000 and provoked Lee and Jacksons 60000 men into battle Jackson moved around Hooker and counterattacked the Union flank on May 2 That night while Jackson was on reconnaissance his own men mistook him for a Northerner and shot him Name the civil war battle that followed with the death of Jackson eight days later -Chancellorsville 11 This marked both the farthest northward advancement by the Confederacy and the turning point that led to its defeat Lee along with Longstreet AP Hill and Richard Ewell led the southern

Pennsylvania attack George Meade replaced Hooker as leader of the Union side Southern forces drove Northerners through the town but could not secure key positions at Cemetery Ridge and Little and Big Round Tops Low on supplies on the final day Lee ordered an attack on the center George Pickett led his famous charge through open fields where the Union mowed down one-third of his 15000 men The Confederates lost 20000 and Lee retreated to Virginia Name this civil war battle - Gettysburg AMERICAN WAR SHIPS

1 USS Constitution Better known as Old Ironsides the Constitution was one of the first six ships commissioned by the US Navy after the American Revolution Launched from Boston in 1797 the Constitution first saw action as the squadron flagship in the Quasi-War with France from 1799-1801 and also fought in the Barbary War and the War of 1812 She later served many years as the nations flagship in the Mediterranean Retired from active duty in 1846 the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides saved her from the scrap yard--she became the training ship of the US Naval Academy until the mid-1880s She became the symbolic flagship of the US Navy in 1940 and is now a floating museum in Boston

2 USS Chesapeake The USS Chesapeake was built at what is now the Norfolk Naval Shipyard between 1798 and 1799 The Chesapeake was attacked by the British Leopard off Cape Henry in 1807 (which led to the duel between Commodores James Barron and Stephen Decatur) one of the causes of the War of 1812 She was captured off Boston in 1813 by the British frigate Shannon on which occasion her commander Capt James Lawrence uttered his celebrated dying words Dont give up the ship which have become a tradition in the US Navy 3 USS LawrenceUSS Niagara Oliver Hazard Perrys decisive victory over the British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10 1813 ensured American control of the Great Lakes during the War of 1812 In the battle Perrys flagship the USS Lawrence was severely damaged and four-fifths of her crew killed or wounded Commodore Perry and a small contingent rowed a half-mile through heavy gunfire to another American ship the USS Niagara Boarding and taking command he brought her into battle and soundly defeated the British fleet Perry summarized the fight in a now-famous message to General William Henry Harrison We have met the enemy and they are ours 4 USS MonitorCSS Virginia [aka USS Merrimack] After departing Union forces burned the Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk in April 1861 yard workers salvaged the USS Merrimack and converted her into the ironclad CSS Virginia On March 8 1862 the CSS Virginia left the shipyard and sank two Union warships in Hampton Roads The Souths ironclad rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and set fire to and sank the USS Congress one of the nations first six frigates The Monitor was sent to end its rampage and the two ironclads battled for 3 12 hours before the Virginia ran aground in its attempt to ram the USS Minnesota Visibly damaged the Virginia retreated and the Monitor withdrew to protect the Minnesota The Confederates destroyed the Virginia soon after to prevent her capture by Union forces The Monitor victorious in her first battle sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras NC The shipwreck is a national underwater sanctuary under the purview of the NOAA 5 USS Maine (ACR-1) [Second class] The first Maine a second-class armored battleship was launched in 1889 A part of the Great White Fleet in 1897 the Maine sailed for Havana to show the flag and protect American citizens Shortly after 940 pm on February 15 1898 the battleship was torn apart by a tremendous explosion The court of inquiry convened in March was unable to obtain evidence associating the blast with any person or persons but public opinion--inflamed by yellow journalism--was such that the Maine disaster led to the declaration of war on Spain on April 21 1898 6 USS Arizona (BB-39) [Pennsylvania class] A lead ship of the honor escort for President Wilsons trip to France in 1918 she was on Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor when Japanese aircraft appeared just before 800 am on Sunday December 7 1941 The Arizona came under attack almost immediately and at about 810 was hit by an 800-kilogram bomb just forward of turret two on the starboard side Within a few seconds the forward powder magazines exploded killing 1177 of the crew and the ship sank to the bottom of the harbor In 1962 the USS Arizona memorial opened and is now administered by the National Park Service

7 USS Missouri (BB-63) [Iowa class] The fourth USS Missouri was the last battleship completed by the United States she was laid down January 6 1941 by New York Naval Shipyard The Missouri was launched January 29 1944 and received her sponsorship from Miss Margaret Truman daughter of then Missouri Senator Harry S Truman Commissioned on June 11 1944 the Mighty Mo as she became known sailed for the Pacific and quickly became the flagship of Admiral Halsey which is why she was chosen as the site of the formal surrender of the Empire of Japan on the morning of September 1 1945 8 USS Nautilus (SSN-571) [Nautilus class] In 1951 Congress authorized construction of the worlds first nuclear-powered submarine On December 12 of that year the Navy Department announced that she would be the sixth ship of the fleet to bear the name Nautilus She was launched on January 21 1954 Eight months later on September 30 1954 the Nautilus became the first commissioned nuclear-powered ship in the US Navy On the morning of January 17 1955 Nautilus Cmdr Wilkinson signaled Underway on Nuclear Power In 1958 she departed Pearl Harbor under top secret orders to conduct Operation Sunshine the first crossing of the North Pole by a ship THINGS YOU HAVE TO KNOW FIVE OF

1 The Waste Land The five parts of T S Eliots 1922 masterpiece The Waste Land are The Burial of the Dead A Game of Chess The Fire Sermon Death By Water and What the Thunder Said

2 Mitosis The five stages of the biological process of mitosis (the production of new body cells from existing ones) are interphase prophase metaphase anaphase and telophase Interphase is not technically a part of mitosis but it still sometimes finds its way in 3 Nobel Prize Winners The five original winners of Nobel Prizes (1901) were Wilhelm Roumlntgen (physics for the discovery of X rays) Jacobus Henricus van t Hoff (chemistry for laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure) Emil Adolf von Behring (physiology or medicine for his serum therapy remedy for diphtheria) Sully Prudhomme (literature for his idealistic poetry) and Henri Dunant and Freacutedeacuteric Passy (peace for founding the International Red Cross and the first French peace society respectively) 4 The Mighty Handful Five nationalist Russian composers are often referred to as The Mighty Handful or The Five They are Modest Mussorgsky (1839 -1881) Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) Cesar Cui (1835-1918) and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) 5 D-Day The codenames for the five beaches attacked in Operation Overlord on D-Day are Gold Juno Sword Utah and Omaha The first three were attacked by British and Canadian forces while the latter two were assaulted by American troops 6 Orders of Architecture There are five classical orders of architecture a term that primarily refers to the design of the columns used in the building They are the Doric (simple used for the Parthenon) Ionic (fancier fluted with scrolls on their capitals) Corinthian (baroque fluted with acanthus-like leaves for capitals) Tuscan (plain similar to Doric) and Composite (mixture of Ionic and Corinthian) The latter two orders are Roman developments the other three originated with the Greeks 7 Cooperstown The first five members elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame were Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Honus Wagner Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson 8 Spectral Lines Hydrogen produces an infinite series of spectral lines The first five of those series are named after scientists who observed them before it was known that they were actually examples of the same phenomenon From lowest to highest energy of the final level they are known as the Lyman Balmer Paschen Brackett and Pfund series Only the Balmer series exists in the visible spectrum 9 Platonic Solids There are only five regular polyhedra three-dimensional shapes with congruent regular polygons for sides These known as the Platonic solids are the tetrahedron (4 triangular sides) cube (6 square sides) octahedron (8 triangular sides) dodecahedron (12 pentagonal sides) and icosahedron (20 triangular sides) 10 Pillars of Islam Islam has five fundamental tenets of religious life a group known as the Pillars of Islam They are the declaration of faith (Shahadah) prayer (Salat) giving charity to those in need (Zakat) fasting during the month of Ramadan (Sawm) and the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) to be performed once in each adherents lifetime

WORKS OF LITERATURE 1 A tragedy by William Shakespeare probably written between 1599 and 1601 The play

set in Denmark recounts how a Prince exacts revenge on his uncle who has murdered his father the King and then took the throne and married his mother The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness from overwhelming grief to seething rage and explores themes of treachery revenge incest and moral corruption ndash Hamlet

2 Whose book The Bonfire of the Vanities contains 2343 exclamation points ndashTom Wolfersquos 3 A play written by William Shakespeare it is generally accepted to be Shakespeares last play

solely written by him Although listed as a comedy in the first Folio many modern editors have relabeled the play a romance First published in the First Folio of 1623 but generally dated to 1610-11 it did not attract a significant amount of attention before the closing of the theatres in 1642 and after the Restoration it attained great popularity only in adapted versions Theatre productions returned conclusively to the original Shakespearean text in the mid-nineteenth century ndash The Tempest

4 This work of literature is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the Greek language making it the first work of European literature The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence possible multiple authors The poem concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Troy ndash The Iliad

5 This novel written in 1851 by Herman Melville The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab Ishmael soon learns that Ahab does not mean to use the Pequod and her crew to hunt whales for market trade as whaling ships generally do Ahab seeks one specific whale Comparatively few whaling ships know of this whale and fewer yet have knowingly encountered the whale ndash Moby Dick

6 This work of literature is among the best-known of William Shakespeares works and is his shortest tragedy It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels and frequently adapted Often regarded as archetypal the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends For the plot Shakespeare drew loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland by Raphael Holinshed and that by the Scottish philosopher Hector Boece There are many superstitions centered on the belief the play is somehow cursed and many actors will not mention the name of the play aloud referring to it instead as the Scottish play ndash Macbeth

7 A French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire this novella tells the tale of young man who has been indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism but becomes disillusioned after witnessing and experiencing many great hardships With a plot similar to that of a more serious picaresque novel or bildungsroman the novel parodies many adventure and romance clicheacutes and the plights of the characters are described in a tone which is mordantly matter-of-fact Through the allegory of the novel Voltaire pokes fun at religion and theologians governments and armies philosophies and philosophers most visibly Voltaire rails against Leibniz and his optimism ndash Candide

8 In this novel written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1808 the protagonist of a classic German legend makes a pact with the Devil The tale is the basis for many literary artistic cinematic and musical works such as those by Christopher Marlowe Goethe Thomas Mann Hector Berlioz Franz Liszt and Charles Gounod The name Faust has come to stand for a charlatan alchemist (some claim astrologer and necromancer) whose pride and vanity lead to his doom ndash Faust

9 A play by William Shakespeare and written around the year 1603 revolves around four central characters Othello his wife Desdemona his lieutenant Cassio and his trusted advisor Iago Because of its varied themes mdash racism love jealousy and betrayal - the play remains relevant to the present day and is still very popular ndash Othello

10 A romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens Theseus and Hippolyta and with fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest The play is one of Shakespeares most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world ndash A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream

11 First published on 28 January 1813 is the most famous of Jane Austens novels and one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel The book is Jane Austens second published novel Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797 initially called First Impressions but was never published under that title Following revisions it was first published on 28 January 1813 Like both its predecessors Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey it was written in Steventon Hampshire where Austen lived in the rectory ndash Pride and Prejudice

AMERICAN HISTORY 1 Who orbited the earth three times in the Friendship 7 ndashJohn Glenn 2 Born in 1912 this Oklahoma born folk singer is known for such songs as The Land is Your Land and Blowin Down This long Dusty Road ndashWoody Guthrie 3 The Shenandoah Valley is located in which state- Virginia 4 During what year did the American Civil War come to an end -1865 5 What comic strip featured such characters as daisy Mae Fearless Fosdick and Gat Garson ndashLilrsquo Abner 6 What Ivy League school is located in New Haven ndashYale 7 In the world of automobile racing what does NASCAR stand for- National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing 8 Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake are both found in which state ndashNew York 9 Labor leader Cesar Chavez led the boycott of what Californian produce during the 1960s ndash Grapes 10 What killed over 2000 people in Johnstown Pennsylvania in 1889 ndasha flood 11 What Holocaust survivor and American author was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 ndash Elie Wiesel 12 What novel exploring the conflicts of mixed race man in America did James Weldon Johnson publish in 1912- The autobiography of an Ex-colored man 13 What acclaimed novelist was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil war and World War Two ndash Ernest Hemingway 14 What explorer sailing for the Netherlands explored the Hudson River in 1609 ndashHenry Hudson 15 Jonas Salk is best known for developing a vaccine against what disease ndashPolio 16 What is the highest mountain found in the United States ndashMt McKinley 17 What popular American song is sung to the tune of the old British drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven ndashThe Star Spangled Banner 18 After converting to Christainity who changed her name to Rebecca and traveled to Britain to meet the King of England ndashPocahontas 19 Who won a Grammy Award for the song From a Distance ndashBette Midler 20 voters in what southern state adopted a new flag in 2003 ndashGeorgia 21 What generalrsquos farewell speech included the now famous line ldquoold soldiers never die they just fade awayrdquo- General Douglas MacArthur 22 ldquoOperation Overlordrdquo was the code name for the invasion of what country ndashFrance 23 During three days of rioting in New York city in 1863 over 1000 people were killed What prompted the riots ndashdraft of union forces in the civil war 24 Who was the president of the confederate states of America during the civil war ndashJefferson Davis 25 What company was founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak in 1976 ndashapple computers 26 What John Steinbeck novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 ndashGrapes of Wrath 27 Who is best known for his painting American gothic ndashGrant Wood 28 What legendary back robber did the ldquolady in redrdquo betray to federal agents ndashJohn Dillinger 29 Who commanded the American forces in Vietnam until 1968 ndashGeneral William Westmoreland

30 Blondie and Dagwood have appeared in newspapers for over half a century Name their two children ndashalexander and cookie 31 Who won the battle of pea ridge ndashthe union 32 What was the first American city to host the summer Olympics ndashst louis (1904) 33 Lopez Orcas and Waldron all belong to what group of islands ndashSan Juan 34 Completed in 1825 what was nicknamed the ldquoBig Ditchrdquo ndashThe Erie Canal 35 What band leader was known as the ldquoMarch Kingrdquo ndashJohn Phillip Sousa 36 Where did the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific meet in 1869 creating the nationrsquos first transcontinental railroad ndashPromontory Utah 37 What feat did Captain Chuck Yeager accomplish in 1947 in the Bell X-1 ndashhe broke the speed of sound 38 Who was the first secretary of the treasury in the United States ndashAlexander Hamilton 39 What film is based on the lives of socialites claus and Sunny von Bulow ndashReversal of Fortune 40 Who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling ndashMajorie Kinnan Rawlings 41 What associated press correspondent was freed in 1991 after spending 2455 days in captivity ndashTerry Anderson 42 In 1913 the 16th amendment of the constitution was passed allowing the federal government to do what ndash tax personal income Countries and Their Capitals

Russia Moscow

Andorra Andorra LaVella

Austria Vienna

Belgium Brussels

Denmark Copenhagen

Finland Helsinki

France Paris

Germany Berlin

Greece Athens

Holy See (Vatican City)

Vatican City

Iceland Reykjavik

Ireland Dublin

Italy Rome

Liechtenstein

Vaduz

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Malta Valletta

Monaco Monaco

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Norway Oslo

Portugal Lisbon

San Marino San Marino

Spain Madrid

Sweden Stockholm

Switzerland Bern

United Kingdom

London

Albania Tirana

Armenia Yerevan

Azerbaijan Baku

Belarus Minsk

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Bulgaria Sofia

Croatia Zagreb

Czech Republic

Prague

Estonia Tallinn

Georgia Tbilisi

Hungary Budapest

Latvia Riga

Lithuania Vilnius

Macedonia Skopje

Moldova Chisinau

Poland Warsaw

Romania Bucharest

Serbia and Montenegro

Belgrade

Slovakia Bratislave

Slovenia Ljubjana

Ukraine Kiev

Cyprus Nicosia

Turkey Ankara

Scotland Edinburgh

Wales Cardiff

Northern Ireland

Belfast

States and Their Capitals

Alabama - Montgomery

Alaska - Juneau

Arizona - Phoenix

Arkansas - Little Rock

California - Sacramento

Colorado - Denver

Connecticut - Hartford

Delaware - Dover

Florida - Tallahassee

Georgia - Atlanta

Hawaii - Honolulu

Idaho - Boise

Illinois - Springfield

Indiana - Indianapolis

Iowa - Des Moines

Kansas - Topeka

Kentucky - Frankfort

Louisiana - Baton Rouge

Maine - Augusta

Maryland - Annapolis

Massachusetts - Boston

Michigan - Lansing

Minnesota - St Paul

Mississippi - Jackson

Missouri - Jefferson City

Montana - Helena

Nebraska - Lincoln

Nevada - Carson City

New Hampshire - Concord

New Jersey - Trenton

New Mexico - Santa Fe

New York - Albany

North Carolina - Raleigh

North Dakota - Bismarck

Ohio - Columbus

Oklahoma - Oklahoma City

Oregon - Salem

Pennsylvania - Harrisburg

Rhode Island - Providence

South Carolina - Columbia

South Dakota - Pierre

Tennessee - Nashville

Texas - Austin

Utah - Salt Lake City

Vermont - Montpelier

Virginia - Richmond

Washington - Olympia

West Virginia ndash Charleston

Wisconsin - Madison

Wyoming ndash Cheyenne

RANDOM KNOWLEDGE 1 Where are the Transvall and Orange Free State provinces ndashSouth Africa 2 What war did the Potsdam Conference follow ndashWorld War II 3 During his presidency the White House bought 12 tons of jelly beans from the Goelitz Candy

Company between January 1981 and September 1988 ndashRonald Reagan 4 What was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans ndashGeorge Elliot 5 He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Lepanto an injury of which he was very proud He had a

rivalry with his contemporary Lope de Vegas whom he regarded as an inferior writer Name this author who was in prison at Argamasilla in La Mancha when he created character such as Dulcinea Sancho Panza and don Quixote ndashMiguel De Cervantes

6 This nationrsquos flag like that of the US features seven horizontal alternating red and white stripes In the upper-left corner however where the US flag has stars this countryrsquos flag has a yellow cresecent moon and smaller sun on a blue field It shares borders with Thailand Indonesia and Brunei What is this Southeast Asian nation with capital at Kuala Lumpur ndashMalaysia

7 Their name comes from the Greek word for salt producer and these elements react with metals to form ionic halide salts They are all reactive with the reactivity decreasing down the group As typical non metals they have high electronegativities and ionization energies and form compounds by gaining an electron to complete a stable configuration What is this group of elements also known as group 17 which includes fluorine bromine and iodine ndashHalogens

8 To qualify for it one had to be male a US citizen (or at least have filed for citizenship) and either be the head of a family or over 21 years old It granted 160 acres of public land free of charge of settlers who agreed to stay at least five years and to cultivate their parcel What was this 1862 act which promoted the agricultural development of the west ndashHomestead Act

9 Alexander the Great sought out this wise man and upon finding him lying in a tub offered to give him whatever he wanted He wise man replied ldquoI want you to get out of my sunrdquo He earned the nickname ldquocyonrdquo meaning dog for his habit of wandering around naked and sleeping in dog houses Who was this Greek philosopher founder of the cynics who was said to search the earth with his lamp looking for an honest man-Diogenes

10 He was born in Bohemia and trained at the Vienna Conservatory eventually becoming conductor of the Prague Opera His second symphony was called the ldquoRessurectionrdquo while his first was known as the ldquoTitanrdquo In a sad irony one of his own children died soon after he completed his song cycle ldquoSongs on the Death of Childrenrdquo Name this composer whose ldquoSymphony of a Thousandrdquo doesnrsquot take quite that many musicians ndashGustav Mahler

11 The single name which designates each of these rulers is the Arabic word for tiger One invaded India and won a decisive victory at Paniput in 1526 The other constantly fights against his rival King Rataxas who happens to be a whino One was the founder of the Moghol Empire the other is King of the Elephants Give the common name ndashBabar

12 It is the second-most common neurological disorder trailing only strokes and affecting one percent of the population Attacks are intiated by abnormal synchronous electrical discharges from millions of neurons in the brain contracting skeletal muscles involuntarily In many cases the reticular activation system is depressed so the victim loses consciousness What is this disorder whose seizures are classified as grand mal or petit mal ndashEpilepsy

13 In the background are three arches which impose formal composition to the scene On the right are two women in draped gown resting their foreheads together sadly Just to the left of them a women hugs two small children In the center of the scene stands a man holding three swords and exhorting the three figures who face him their arms straight forward in a Roman salute This describes what 1785 painting by Jacques-Louis David (dah-veed) ndashThe Oath of Horatii

14 A poor Presbyterian minister from Leeds England he met Benjamin Franklin in 1767 and became interested in electricity and chemistry He began studying the vats of a nearby brewery fascinated by the different prosperities of the gases emitted by them One gas he noticed extinguished the burning chips of wood he had placed over it In 1774 he isolated the gas which he called ldquodephlogisticated airrdquo Name this British scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen ndashJoseph Priestly

15 It takes place on June 27th of an unnamed year The master of ceremonies is Mr Summers who is assisted by the postmaster Mr Graves Old Man Warner complains that the procedure is no longer carried out as formally as when he was a boy Only heads of families draw and when itrsquos done Bill Hutchinson finds himself holding the slip of paper with the black dot on it This is a brief description of what classic short story by Shirley Jackson ndashThe lottery

16 He was the only completely clean-shaven president to serve between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson He was also last president who was a Civil War veteran having served on the staff of a colonel named Rutherford B Hayes Governor of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 his campaign was directed by the king maker Mark Hanna Name this president assassinated in 1901 ndashWilliam McKinley

17 Evaluate the integral from negative 2 to 2 of sin3x with respect to x -0 18 Fly-by missions of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1980 and 1981 gave scientists more information about

this planet than had been accumulated since Galileo first viewed it telescopically in 1610 The missions discovered that the planetrsquos atmosphere is dynamic with wind storms gusting over 1500 kilometers per hour

Bonus Round 1 ANSWERS Letter Category ndash brought to you by the letter ldquoJrdquo 1 From 213 to 144 million years ago it was the second period of the Mesozoic era Answer Jurassic period 2 This is the SI unit of mechanical work Answer Joule 3 This American official was a co-author of the Federalist Papers Answer John Jay (accept J)

4 The seat of Duval County it is the largest city in the state of Florida Answer Jacksonville 5 A wicker basket is attached to the playerrsquos arm to hurl the small rubber ball in this popular Spanish sport similar to handball Answer Jai Alai (pron hindashlie) 6 This 20th century American artist was one of the leading proponents of pop art Answer Jasper Johns 7 The most well known novel of this 20th century Irish writer is Ulysses Answer James Joyce 8 This May 1916 battle was the only major sea battle between the British and Germans during World War 1 Answer Battle of Jutland 9 The pants tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle where they end in a snug cuff and are worn primarily for horseback riding Answer jodhpurs

10 One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity this emperorrsquos rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire and is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii or restoration of the empirerdquo Answer Justinian Bonus Round 2 This Letter Category brought to you by the letter ldquoGrdquo - KEY 1 This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue Answer George Gershwin 2 The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel Answer The Grapes of Wrath

3 650 miles off the Pacific coast these islands are owned by Ecuador Answer Galapagos Islands 4 Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s this was the public policy of Soviet openness Answer Glasnost 5 This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants Answer Gary 6 This man was the 18th President of the United States Answer Ulysses S Grant

7 Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US Answer Glaucoma 8 This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his ldquoback to Africardquo movement Answer Marcus Garvey 9 What is the official processed food of Georgia Answer Grits

10 What is the name of the famous search engine which changes with important dates throughout the year Answer Google Round 1 Toss-Up Questions

1 2 Charlotte Jacksonville Birmingham ndash place these southern cities in order from largest to smallest a Answer Jacksonville Charlotte Birmingham (213)

2 Written after its authors baptism in the Church of England the third section of this cycle of poems takes its name from a group of rocks off the English coast ldquoThe Dry Salvagesrdquo It also includes the sections ldquoBurnt Nortonrdquo ldquoEast Cokerrdquo and ldquoLittle Giddingrdquo For 10 points name this musically titled cycle of poems by T S Eliot ANSWER Four Quartets

3 John Kerry Shannon OBrien Mitt Romney ndash Which of these people was recently elected governor of Massachusetts Answer Mitt Romney (3)

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

2 The son of Priam and Hecuba he is destined to be the ruin of his country He fulfills this destiny by accepting a bribe when asked to judge which of three goddesses is the fairest When he awards Aphrodite she repays him by granting him the most beautiful woman in the world Helen (who is already married to Menelaus) Name the Trojan prince who kills Achilles with an arrow to the heel - Paris 3 The king of Troy he has 50 sons and 12 daughters with his wife Hecuba plus at least 42 more children with various concubines Neoptolemus the son of Achilles kills him in front of his wife and daughters during the siege of Troy Name that Trojan king - Priam 4 The wife of Priam she suffers the loss of most of her children but survives the fall of Troy She is later turned into a dog Name this Trojan queen -Hecuba 5 The wife of Hector and mother of Astyanax she futilely warns Hector about the war then sees both her husband and son killed by the Greeks After the war she is made concubine to Neoptolemus Name this Trojan woman who later marries the Trojan prophet Helenus - Andromache 6 This daughter of Priam and Hecuba has an affair with the god Apollo who grants her the gift of prophecy Unable to revoke the gift after they quarrel Apollo curses her by preventing anyone from believing her predictions Name the Trojan princess who is later killed by the wife of Agamemnon - Cassandra 7 Yet another son of Priam and Hecuba this priest of Apollo doubts the merits of bringing the Trojan horse into the city Later while sacrificing a bull two serpents from the sea crush both him and his two young sons Name this Trojan priest - Laocoon BRITISH MONARCHS

1 This British monarch brought England into both the Renaissance and the Reformation Originally a supporter of the Catholic Church he named himself head of the Church of England in 1533 so that he could divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn - Henry VIII

2 This British monarch foiled attempts at her throne by Spanish king Philip II and Mary Queen of Scots Her reign saw great expansion of the English navy and the emergence of William Shakespeare but when she died the Crown went to Scottish king James VI the son of Mary Queen of Scots Name this monarch who was known as the Virgin Queen ndashElizabeth I 3 This British monarch suffered from porphyria causing the madness that ultimately led to the Regency period (1811-1820) of his son Name the monarch that lost America in the Revolutionary War - George III 4 The longest-reigning monarch in British history she relinquished much of the remaining royal power both to her husband Albert and to her favored prime ministers Lord Melbourne Robert Peel and Benjamin Disraeli Name this British monarch - Victoria 5 Duke of Normandy from 1035 he was promised succession to the throne by Edward the Confessor but when Edward gave the throne to Harold II in 1066 he invaded England killing Harold and defeating the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings Name this British monarch - William I (the Conqueror) 6 This British monarch asked Parliament for money to fight costly foreign wars and when Parliament balked he had to sign the Petition of Right From 1630 to 1641 he tried to rule solo but financial troubles forced him to call Parliament His attempt to reform the Scottish church led to the English Civil War After is defeat he was convicted of treason and executed England became a Commonwealth with Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector Name the last absolute English monarch - Charles I 7 This British monarch claimed the English throne upon the death of Elizabeth I A believer in absolutism he dissolved Parliament from 1611 to 1621 favoring ministers Robert Cecil and the Duke of Buckingham instead His rule saw English expansion into North America through royal charter in Virginia and Puritan protest in Massachusetts Name the great-great-grandson of Henry VII - James I 8 He was made Duke of Gloucester in 1461 when his brother Edward IV deposed the Lancastrian king Henry VI as part of the Wars of the Roses Upon Edwards death in 1483 he served as regent to his nephew Edward V but had the boy murdered in the Tower of London After two years of rule this

British monarch died at the hands of Henry Tudors Lancastrian ending the Wars of the Roses- Richard III 9 This British monarch and her husband Prince Philip Mountbatten have traveled the globe representing British interests Marital failures by her sons Charles (the Prince of Wales) and Andrew have plagued her reign Name this representative of the modern ceremonial monarchy - Elizabeth II 10 This British monarch invaded England in 1153 While king he developed the common law and due process but fought with Thomas (agrave) Becket over submission to the Pope Henry had Becket executed in 1170 but performed penance at Canterbury Name this British monarch - Henry II 11 Third son of Henry II he spent only five months of his reign in England He went on the Third Crusade to Jerusalem winning many victories in the Holy Land but on his way back was captured and ransomed by Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI He also fought Philip II in Normandy and died while defending his possessions in Aquitaine Name this British monarch - Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) 12 Actually just the King of Wessex in southwestern England this British monarch expelled the rival Danes from the Mercian town of London in 886 eventually conquering most of the Danelaw territory He also kept England from the worst of the Dark Ages by encouraging his bishops to foster literacy Name this British monarch - Alfred the Great RUSSIAN TSARS 1 His Grand Embassy to Europe enabled him to learn about Western life because of this he later invited Western artisans to come to Russia required the boyars to shave their beards and wear Western clothing and even founded a new capital St Petersburg--his window on the West He also led his country in the Great Northern War created a Table of Ranks for the nobility and reformed the bureaucracy and army Name the Russian tsar famous for both his push for Westernization and for his boisterous personality - Peter I 2 This Russian tsar wasnt really a Russian at all she was born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst and was chosen as the bride of the future Peter III She had thoroughly Russianized herself by the time Peter became tsar and soon had him deposed She corresponded with Enlightenment philosophes granted charters of rights and obligations to the nobility and the towns oversaw the partition of Poland and expanded the empire Name the Russian tsar that is well known for her extravagant love life - Catherine II 3 The last of the Romanovs this Russian tsar ruled until his overthrow in the February Revolution of 1917 He is usually seen as both a kind man who loved his family and an incapable monarch who helped bring about the end of the tsarist state He led his country through two disastrous wars the Russo-Japanese War and World War I Name the Russian tsar that was shot in 1918 - Nicholas II 4 This Russian tsar embarked on a program of Great Reforms soon after taking the throne near the end of the Crimean War The most famous part of his program was the serf emancipation of 1861--a reform which occurred almost simultaneously with the end of American slavery But he also introduced a system of local governing bodies called zemstvos tried to increase the rule of law in the court system eased censorship and reorganized the army Name the Russian tsar that was assassinated in 1881 - Alexander II CIVIL WAR BATTLES1

1 In order to claim true independence from the Union Jefferson Davis decided that the Union forts needed to be taken a Confederate force under PGT Beauregard ordered the small Union garrison controlled by Major Robert Anderson to surrender Anderson refused shots were fired and the Union commander surrendered two days later with only one soldier killed The Union made two unsuccessful attempts to recapture the fort with ironclad ships in 1863 but Confederate forces finally abandoned Sumter when they left Charleston in February 1865 Name this Civil War battle - Fort Sumter

2 Fought at a creek near Manassas Virginia this was the first major showdown of the Civil war Beauregard led an army against Union commander Irwin McDowell The Confederacy routed the Union when Thomas Jacksons brigade held the left line at Henry House Hill Name this Civil War battle that had congressmen expecting to watch a Union victory fleeing in panic back to DC Name this Civil War battle - First Bull Run First Manassas

3 A channel in southeastern Virginia was the site of the first major fight between two ironclad ships The Confederates raised an old wooden boat the Merrimack and fit it with ten guns and iron armor plates Renaming the Virginia The Union countered by constructing a large oval with a rotating gun called the Monitor The Virginia tore through Union wooden ships but when the Monitor arrived the two ironclads fought to a stalemate - thus the Union maintained its blockade Name this Civil War battle - Hampton Roads

4 This Civil War battle was named after a church in Pittsburg Landing Tennessee Confederate commander Albert Sidney Johnston led a force north from Mississippi Ulysses S Grant who had just captured Fort Donelson brought five Union divisions to face him At first the South led the attack but Union troops held the Hornets Nest for hours killing Johnston in the process Beauregard took over but by the second day Northern Generals Don Carlos Buell and Lew Wallace brought reinforcements causing the Confederates to retreat Name this Civil War battle - Shiloh Pittsburg Landing

5 Union commander George McClellan devised this plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond Virginia by sending 110000 men up the peninsula between the York and James rivers Advised of Northern maneuvers Southern commander Joseph Johnston detached a force to defend the peninsula He also sent a small unit that crushed Union reinforcements in the West Name this civil war campaign leading to McClellans retreat down the James toward Harrisons Landing-Peninsular Campaign

6 This resounding victory by Lee and Jackson pushed Union forces back to Washington DC President Lincoln had replaced McClellan with John Pope who would supposedly be united with the Army of the Potomac commanded by Henry Halleck Lee maneuvered Jacksons troops behind those of Pope Jackson detained Popes men at Manassas while Lee sent James Longstreet to crush Popes left flank Hallecks army was supposed to land at Aquia but instead retreated to defend Washington ceding all of Virginia to the Confederacy and marking a low point in the Union effort Name this civil war battle - Second Bull Run Second Manassas

7 The bloodiest day of the Civil War 12000 Union men lost their lives as did 10000 Confederates Lee planned a northern invasion into Maryland but a Union soldier discovered those battle plans wrapped around three cigars Instead Lee marched his army toward Sharpsburg Creek Meanwhile Jacksons forces captured Harpers Ferry Virginia and rushed to reunite with Lee McClellan had a large enough force to capture the entire rebel army but did not use all of his troops nor coordinate one solid attack This civil war battle was actually a series of five skirmishes -Antietam Sharpsburg

8 At this site about 50 miles south of Washington Union commander Ambrose Burnside tried to take the initiative and cross the Rappahannock River in a march toward Richmond He met Lees forces which were well entrenched in the hills behind the town With a superior position Lee routed the Union army 13000 Northern troops fell there while only 5000 Confederates were killed After the battle Burnsides troops were forced to make The Mud March up the Rappahannock made foul by weather and dead and wounded bodies Name this civil war battle -Fredericksburg Maryes Heights 9 This campaign was launched by Grant to take control of the Mississippi River and cut off the western Confederate states from the east Grant ordered regiments led by James McPherson John McClernand and William Tecumseh Sherman through bayous west of the Mississippi to Hard Times Name this civil war battle that caused Johnston to withdraw east - Vicksburg Campaign 10 This battle is known as a victory for the South but with great cost as Stonewall Jackson lost his life Lincoln called on Fighting Joe Hooker to command the Union army Hooker took a force of 134000 and provoked Lee and Jacksons 60000 men into battle Jackson moved around Hooker and counterattacked the Union flank on May 2 That night while Jackson was on reconnaissance his own men mistook him for a Northerner and shot him Name the civil war battle that followed with the death of Jackson eight days later -Chancellorsville 11 This marked both the farthest northward advancement by the Confederacy and the turning point that led to its defeat Lee along with Longstreet AP Hill and Richard Ewell led the southern

Pennsylvania attack George Meade replaced Hooker as leader of the Union side Southern forces drove Northerners through the town but could not secure key positions at Cemetery Ridge and Little and Big Round Tops Low on supplies on the final day Lee ordered an attack on the center George Pickett led his famous charge through open fields where the Union mowed down one-third of his 15000 men The Confederates lost 20000 and Lee retreated to Virginia Name this civil war battle - Gettysburg AMERICAN WAR SHIPS

1 USS Constitution Better known as Old Ironsides the Constitution was one of the first six ships commissioned by the US Navy after the American Revolution Launched from Boston in 1797 the Constitution first saw action as the squadron flagship in the Quasi-War with France from 1799-1801 and also fought in the Barbary War and the War of 1812 She later served many years as the nations flagship in the Mediterranean Retired from active duty in 1846 the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides saved her from the scrap yard--she became the training ship of the US Naval Academy until the mid-1880s She became the symbolic flagship of the US Navy in 1940 and is now a floating museum in Boston

2 USS Chesapeake The USS Chesapeake was built at what is now the Norfolk Naval Shipyard between 1798 and 1799 The Chesapeake was attacked by the British Leopard off Cape Henry in 1807 (which led to the duel between Commodores James Barron and Stephen Decatur) one of the causes of the War of 1812 She was captured off Boston in 1813 by the British frigate Shannon on which occasion her commander Capt James Lawrence uttered his celebrated dying words Dont give up the ship which have become a tradition in the US Navy 3 USS LawrenceUSS Niagara Oliver Hazard Perrys decisive victory over the British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10 1813 ensured American control of the Great Lakes during the War of 1812 In the battle Perrys flagship the USS Lawrence was severely damaged and four-fifths of her crew killed or wounded Commodore Perry and a small contingent rowed a half-mile through heavy gunfire to another American ship the USS Niagara Boarding and taking command he brought her into battle and soundly defeated the British fleet Perry summarized the fight in a now-famous message to General William Henry Harrison We have met the enemy and they are ours 4 USS MonitorCSS Virginia [aka USS Merrimack] After departing Union forces burned the Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk in April 1861 yard workers salvaged the USS Merrimack and converted her into the ironclad CSS Virginia On March 8 1862 the CSS Virginia left the shipyard and sank two Union warships in Hampton Roads The Souths ironclad rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and set fire to and sank the USS Congress one of the nations first six frigates The Monitor was sent to end its rampage and the two ironclads battled for 3 12 hours before the Virginia ran aground in its attempt to ram the USS Minnesota Visibly damaged the Virginia retreated and the Monitor withdrew to protect the Minnesota The Confederates destroyed the Virginia soon after to prevent her capture by Union forces The Monitor victorious in her first battle sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras NC The shipwreck is a national underwater sanctuary under the purview of the NOAA 5 USS Maine (ACR-1) [Second class] The first Maine a second-class armored battleship was launched in 1889 A part of the Great White Fleet in 1897 the Maine sailed for Havana to show the flag and protect American citizens Shortly after 940 pm on February 15 1898 the battleship was torn apart by a tremendous explosion The court of inquiry convened in March was unable to obtain evidence associating the blast with any person or persons but public opinion--inflamed by yellow journalism--was such that the Maine disaster led to the declaration of war on Spain on April 21 1898 6 USS Arizona (BB-39) [Pennsylvania class] A lead ship of the honor escort for President Wilsons trip to France in 1918 she was on Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor when Japanese aircraft appeared just before 800 am on Sunday December 7 1941 The Arizona came under attack almost immediately and at about 810 was hit by an 800-kilogram bomb just forward of turret two on the starboard side Within a few seconds the forward powder magazines exploded killing 1177 of the crew and the ship sank to the bottom of the harbor In 1962 the USS Arizona memorial opened and is now administered by the National Park Service

7 USS Missouri (BB-63) [Iowa class] The fourth USS Missouri was the last battleship completed by the United States she was laid down January 6 1941 by New York Naval Shipyard The Missouri was launched January 29 1944 and received her sponsorship from Miss Margaret Truman daughter of then Missouri Senator Harry S Truman Commissioned on June 11 1944 the Mighty Mo as she became known sailed for the Pacific and quickly became the flagship of Admiral Halsey which is why she was chosen as the site of the formal surrender of the Empire of Japan on the morning of September 1 1945 8 USS Nautilus (SSN-571) [Nautilus class] In 1951 Congress authorized construction of the worlds first nuclear-powered submarine On December 12 of that year the Navy Department announced that she would be the sixth ship of the fleet to bear the name Nautilus She was launched on January 21 1954 Eight months later on September 30 1954 the Nautilus became the first commissioned nuclear-powered ship in the US Navy On the morning of January 17 1955 Nautilus Cmdr Wilkinson signaled Underway on Nuclear Power In 1958 she departed Pearl Harbor under top secret orders to conduct Operation Sunshine the first crossing of the North Pole by a ship THINGS YOU HAVE TO KNOW FIVE OF

1 The Waste Land The five parts of T S Eliots 1922 masterpiece The Waste Land are The Burial of the Dead A Game of Chess The Fire Sermon Death By Water and What the Thunder Said

2 Mitosis The five stages of the biological process of mitosis (the production of new body cells from existing ones) are interphase prophase metaphase anaphase and telophase Interphase is not technically a part of mitosis but it still sometimes finds its way in 3 Nobel Prize Winners The five original winners of Nobel Prizes (1901) were Wilhelm Roumlntgen (physics for the discovery of X rays) Jacobus Henricus van t Hoff (chemistry for laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure) Emil Adolf von Behring (physiology or medicine for his serum therapy remedy for diphtheria) Sully Prudhomme (literature for his idealistic poetry) and Henri Dunant and Freacutedeacuteric Passy (peace for founding the International Red Cross and the first French peace society respectively) 4 The Mighty Handful Five nationalist Russian composers are often referred to as The Mighty Handful or The Five They are Modest Mussorgsky (1839 -1881) Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) Cesar Cui (1835-1918) and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) 5 D-Day The codenames for the five beaches attacked in Operation Overlord on D-Day are Gold Juno Sword Utah and Omaha The first three were attacked by British and Canadian forces while the latter two were assaulted by American troops 6 Orders of Architecture There are five classical orders of architecture a term that primarily refers to the design of the columns used in the building They are the Doric (simple used for the Parthenon) Ionic (fancier fluted with scrolls on their capitals) Corinthian (baroque fluted with acanthus-like leaves for capitals) Tuscan (plain similar to Doric) and Composite (mixture of Ionic and Corinthian) The latter two orders are Roman developments the other three originated with the Greeks 7 Cooperstown The first five members elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame were Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Honus Wagner Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson 8 Spectral Lines Hydrogen produces an infinite series of spectral lines The first five of those series are named after scientists who observed them before it was known that they were actually examples of the same phenomenon From lowest to highest energy of the final level they are known as the Lyman Balmer Paschen Brackett and Pfund series Only the Balmer series exists in the visible spectrum 9 Platonic Solids There are only five regular polyhedra three-dimensional shapes with congruent regular polygons for sides These known as the Platonic solids are the tetrahedron (4 triangular sides) cube (6 square sides) octahedron (8 triangular sides) dodecahedron (12 pentagonal sides) and icosahedron (20 triangular sides) 10 Pillars of Islam Islam has five fundamental tenets of religious life a group known as the Pillars of Islam They are the declaration of faith (Shahadah) prayer (Salat) giving charity to those in need (Zakat) fasting during the month of Ramadan (Sawm) and the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) to be performed once in each adherents lifetime

WORKS OF LITERATURE 1 A tragedy by William Shakespeare probably written between 1599 and 1601 The play

set in Denmark recounts how a Prince exacts revenge on his uncle who has murdered his father the King and then took the throne and married his mother The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness from overwhelming grief to seething rage and explores themes of treachery revenge incest and moral corruption ndash Hamlet

2 Whose book The Bonfire of the Vanities contains 2343 exclamation points ndashTom Wolfersquos 3 A play written by William Shakespeare it is generally accepted to be Shakespeares last play

solely written by him Although listed as a comedy in the first Folio many modern editors have relabeled the play a romance First published in the First Folio of 1623 but generally dated to 1610-11 it did not attract a significant amount of attention before the closing of the theatres in 1642 and after the Restoration it attained great popularity only in adapted versions Theatre productions returned conclusively to the original Shakespearean text in the mid-nineteenth century ndash The Tempest

4 This work of literature is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the Greek language making it the first work of European literature The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence possible multiple authors The poem concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Troy ndash The Iliad

5 This novel written in 1851 by Herman Melville The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab Ishmael soon learns that Ahab does not mean to use the Pequod and her crew to hunt whales for market trade as whaling ships generally do Ahab seeks one specific whale Comparatively few whaling ships know of this whale and fewer yet have knowingly encountered the whale ndash Moby Dick

6 This work of literature is among the best-known of William Shakespeares works and is his shortest tragedy It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels and frequently adapted Often regarded as archetypal the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends For the plot Shakespeare drew loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland by Raphael Holinshed and that by the Scottish philosopher Hector Boece There are many superstitions centered on the belief the play is somehow cursed and many actors will not mention the name of the play aloud referring to it instead as the Scottish play ndash Macbeth

7 A French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire this novella tells the tale of young man who has been indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism but becomes disillusioned after witnessing and experiencing many great hardships With a plot similar to that of a more serious picaresque novel or bildungsroman the novel parodies many adventure and romance clicheacutes and the plights of the characters are described in a tone which is mordantly matter-of-fact Through the allegory of the novel Voltaire pokes fun at religion and theologians governments and armies philosophies and philosophers most visibly Voltaire rails against Leibniz and his optimism ndash Candide

8 In this novel written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1808 the protagonist of a classic German legend makes a pact with the Devil The tale is the basis for many literary artistic cinematic and musical works such as those by Christopher Marlowe Goethe Thomas Mann Hector Berlioz Franz Liszt and Charles Gounod The name Faust has come to stand for a charlatan alchemist (some claim astrologer and necromancer) whose pride and vanity lead to his doom ndash Faust

9 A play by William Shakespeare and written around the year 1603 revolves around four central characters Othello his wife Desdemona his lieutenant Cassio and his trusted advisor Iago Because of its varied themes mdash racism love jealousy and betrayal - the play remains relevant to the present day and is still very popular ndash Othello

10 A romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens Theseus and Hippolyta and with fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest The play is one of Shakespeares most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world ndash A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream

11 First published on 28 January 1813 is the most famous of Jane Austens novels and one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel The book is Jane Austens second published novel Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797 initially called First Impressions but was never published under that title Following revisions it was first published on 28 January 1813 Like both its predecessors Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey it was written in Steventon Hampshire where Austen lived in the rectory ndash Pride and Prejudice

AMERICAN HISTORY 1 Who orbited the earth three times in the Friendship 7 ndashJohn Glenn 2 Born in 1912 this Oklahoma born folk singer is known for such songs as The Land is Your Land and Blowin Down This long Dusty Road ndashWoody Guthrie 3 The Shenandoah Valley is located in which state- Virginia 4 During what year did the American Civil War come to an end -1865 5 What comic strip featured such characters as daisy Mae Fearless Fosdick and Gat Garson ndashLilrsquo Abner 6 What Ivy League school is located in New Haven ndashYale 7 In the world of automobile racing what does NASCAR stand for- National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing 8 Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake are both found in which state ndashNew York 9 Labor leader Cesar Chavez led the boycott of what Californian produce during the 1960s ndash Grapes 10 What killed over 2000 people in Johnstown Pennsylvania in 1889 ndasha flood 11 What Holocaust survivor and American author was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 ndash Elie Wiesel 12 What novel exploring the conflicts of mixed race man in America did James Weldon Johnson publish in 1912- The autobiography of an Ex-colored man 13 What acclaimed novelist was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil war and World War Two ndash Ernest Hemingway 14 What explorer sailing for the Netherlands explored the Hudson River in 1609 ndashHenry Hudson 15 Jonas Salk is best known for developing a vaccine against what disease ndashPolio 16 What is the highest mountain found in the United States ndashMt McKinley 17 What popular American song is sung to the tune of the old British drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven ndashThe Star Spangled Banner 18 After converting to Christainity who changed her name to Rebecca and traveled to Britain to meet the King of England ndashPocahontas 19 Who won a Grammy Award for the song From a Distance ndashBette Midler 20 voters in what southern state adopted a new flag in 2003 ndashGeorgia 21 What generalrsquos farewell speech included the now famous line ldquoold soldiers never die they just fade awayrdquo- General Douglas MacArthur 22 ldquoOperation Overlordrdquo was the code name for the invasion of what country ndashFrance 23 During three days of rioting in New York city in 1863 over 1000 people were killed What prompted the riots ndashdraft of union forces in the civil war 24 Who was the president of the confederate states of America during the civil war ndashJefferson Davis 25 What company was founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak in 1976 ndashapple computers 26 What John Steinbeck novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 ndashGrapes of Wrath 27 Who is best known for his painting American gothic ndashGrant Wood 28 What legendary back robber did the ldquolady in redrdquo betray to federal agents ndashJohn Dillinger 29 Who commanded the American forces in Vietnam until 1968 ndashGeneral William Westmoreland

30 Blondie and Dagwood have appeared in newspapers for over half a century Name their two children ndashalexander and cookie 31 Who won the battle of pea ridge ndashthe union 32 What was the first American city to host the summer Olympics ndashst louis (1904) 33 Lopez Orcas and Waldron all belong to what group of islands ndashSan Juan 34 Completed in 1825 what was nicknamed the ldquoBig Ditchrdquo ndashThe Erie Canal 35 What band leader was known as the ldquoMarch Kingrdquo ndashJohn Phillip Sousa 36 Where did the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific meet in 1869 creating the nationrsquos first transcontinental railroad ndashPromontory Utah 37 What feat did Captain Chuck Yeager accomplish in 1947 in the Bell X-1 ndashhe broke the speed of sound 38 Who was the first secretary of the treasury in the United States ndashAlexander Hamilton 39 What film is based on the lives of socialites claus and Sunny von Bulow ndashReversal of Fortune 40 Who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling ndashMajorie Kinnan Rawlings 41 What associated press correspondent was freed in 1991 after spending 2455 days in captivity ndashTerry Anderson 42 In 1913 the 16th amendment of the constitution was passed allowing the federal government to do what ndash tax personal income Countries and Their Capitals

Russia Moscow

Andorra Andorra LaVella

Austria Vienna

Belgium Brussels

Denmark Copenhagen

Finland Helsinki

France Paris

Germany Berlin

Greece Athens

Holy See (Vatican City)

Vatican City

Iceland Reykjavik

Ireland Dublin

Italy Rome

Liechtenstein

Vaduz

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Malta Valletta

Monaco Monaco

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Norway Oslo

Portugal Lisbon

San Marino San Marino

Spain Madrid

Sweden Stockholm

Switzerland Bern

United Kingdom

London

Albania Tirana

Armenia Yerevan

Azerbaijan Baku

Belarus Minsk

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Bulgaria Sofia

Croatia Zagreb

Czech Republic

Prague

Estonia Tallinn

Georgia Tbilisi

Hungary Budapest

Latvia Riga

Lithuania Vilnius

Macedonia Skopje

Moldova Chisinau

Poland Warsaw

Romania Bucharest

Serbia and Montenegro

Belgrade

Slovakia Bratislave

Slovenia Ljubjana

Ukraine Kiev

Cyprus Nicosia

Turkey Ankara

Scotland Edinburgh

Wales Cardiff

Northern Ireland

Belfast

States and Their Capitals

Alabama - Montgomery

Alaska - Juneau

Arizona - Phoenix

Arkansas - Little Rock

California - Sacramento

Colorado - Denver

Connecticut - Hartford

Delaware - Dover

Florida - Tallahassee

Georgia - Atlanta

Hawaii - Honolulu

Idaho - Boise

Illinois - Springfield

Indiana - Indianapolis

Iowa - Des Moines

Kansas - Topeka

Kentucky - Frankfort

Louisiana - Baton Rouge

Maine - Augusta

Maryland - Annapolis

Massachusetts - Boston

Michigan - Lansing

Minnesota - St Paul

Mississippi - Jackson

Missouri - Jefferson City

Montana - Helena

Nebraska - Lincoln

Nevada - Carson City

New Hampshire - Concord

New Jersey - Trenton

New Mexico - Santa Fe

New York - Albany

North Carolina - Raleigh

North Dakota - Bismarck

Ohio - Columbus

Oklahoma - Oklahoma City

Oregon - Salem

Pennsylvania - Harrisburg

Rhode Island - Providence

South Carolina - Columbia

South Dakota - Pierre

Tennessee - Nashville

Texas - Austin

Utah - Salt Lake City

Vermont - Montpelier

Virginia - Richmond

Washington - Olympia

West Virginia ndash Charleston

Wisconsin - Madison

Wyoming ndash Cheyenne

RANDOM KNOWLEDGE 1 Where are the Transvall and Orange Free State provinces ndashSouth Africa 2 What war did the Potsdam Conference follow ndashWorld War II 3 During his presidency the White House bought 12 tons of jelly beans from the Goelitz Candy

Company between January 1981 and September 1988 ndashRonald Reagan 4 What was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans ndashGeorge Elliot 5 He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Lepanto an injury of which he was very proud He had a

rivalry with his contemporary Lope de Vegas whom he regarded as an inferior writer Name this author who was in prison at Argamasilla in La Mancha when he created character such as Dulcinea Sancho Panza and don Quixote ndashMiguel De Cervantes

6 This nationrsquos flag like that of the US features seven horizontal alternating red and white stripes In the upper-left corner however where the US flag has stars this countryrsquos flag has a yellow cresecent moon and smaller sun on a blue field It shares borders with Thailand Indonesia and Brunei What is this Southeast Asian nation with capital at Kuala Lumpur ndashMalaysia

7 Their name comes from the Greek word for salt producer and these elements react with metals to form ionic halide salts They are all reactive with the reactivity decreasing down the group As typical non metals they have high electronegativities and ionization energies and form compounds by gaining an electron to complete a stable configuration What is this group of elements also known as group 17 which includes fluorine bromine and iodine ndashHalogens

8 To qualify for it one had to be male a US citizen (or at least have filed for citizenship) and either be the head of a family or over 21 years old It granted 160 acres of public land free of charge of settlers who agreed to stay at least five years and to cultivate their parcel What was this 1862 act which promoted the agricultural development of the west ndashHomestead Act

9 Alexander the Great sought out this wise man and upon finding him lying in a tub offered to give him whatever he wanted He wise man replied ldquoI want you to get out of my sunrdquo He earned the nickname ldquocyonrdquo meaning dog for his habit of wandering around naked and sleeping in dog houses Who was this Greek philosopher founder of the cynics who was said to search the earth with his lamp looking for an honest man-Diogenes

10 He was born in Bohemia and trained at the Vienna Conservatory eventually becoming conductor of the Prague Opera His second symphony was called the ldquoRessurectionrdquo while his first was known as the ldquoTitanrdquo In a sad irony one of his own children died soon after he completed his song cycle ldquoSongs on the Death of Childrenrdquo Name this composer whose ldquoSymphony of a Thousandrdquo doesnrsquot take quite that many musicians ndashGustav Mahler

11 The single name which designates each of these rulers is the Arabic word for tiger One invaded India and won a decisive victory at Paniput in 1526 The other constantly fights against his rival King Rataxas who happens to be a whino One was the founder of the Moghol Empire the other is King of the Elephants Give the common name ndashBabar

12 It is the second-most common neurological disorder trailing only strokes and affecting one percent of the population Attacks are intiated by abnormal synchronous electrical discharges from millions of neurons in the brain contracting skeletal muscles involuntarily In many cases the reticular activation system is depressed so the victim loses consciousness What is this disorder whose seizures are classified as grand mal or petit mal ndashEpilepsy

13 In the background are three arches which impose formal composition to the scene On the right are two women in draped gown resting their foreheads together sadly Just to the left of them a women hugs two small children In the center of the scene stands a man holding three swords and exhorting the three figures who face him their arms straight forward in a Roman salute This describes what 1785 painting by Jacques-Louis David (dah-veed) ndashThe Oath of Horatii

14 A poor Presbyterian minister from Leeds England he met Benjamin Franklin in 1767 and became interested in electricity and chemistry He began studying the vats of a nearby brewery fascinated by the different prosperities of the gases emitted by them One gas he noticed extinguished the burning chips of wood he had placed over it In 1774 he isolated the gas which he called ldquodephlogisticated airrdquo Name this British scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen ndashJoseph Priestly

15 It takes place on June 27th of an unnamed year The master of ceremonies is Mr Summers who is assisted by the postmaster Mr Graves Old Man Warner complains that the procedure is no longer carried out as formally as when he was a boy Only heads of families draw and when itrsquos done Bill Hutchinson finds himself holding the slip of paper with the black dot on it This is a brief description of what classic short story by Shirley Jackson ndashThe lottery

16 He was the only completely clean-shaven president to serve between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson He was also last president who was a Civil War veteran having served on the staff of a colonel named Rutherford B Hayes Governor of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 his campaign was directed by the king maker Mark Hanna Name this president assassinated in 1901 ndashWilliam McKinley

17 Evaluate the integral from negative 2 to 2 of sin3x with respect to x -0 18 Fly-by missions of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1980 and 1981 gave scientists more information about

this planet than had been accumulated since Galileo first viewed it telescopically in 1610 The missions discovered that the planetrsquos atmosphere is dynamic with wind storms gusting over 1500 kilometers per hour

Bonus Round 1 ANSWERS Letter Category ndash brought to you by the letter ldquoJrdquo 1 From 213 to 144 million years ago it was the second period of the Mesozoic era Answer Jurassic period 2 This is the SI unit of mechanical work Answer Joule 3 This American official was a co-author of the Federalist Papers Answer John Jay (accept J)

4 The seat of Duval County it is the largest city in the state of Florida Answer Jacksonville 5 A wicker basket is attached to the playerrsquos arm to hurl the small rubber ball in this popular Spanish sport similar to handball Answer Jai Alai (pron hindashlie) 6 This 20th century American artist was one of the leading proponents of pop art Answer Jasper Johns 7 The most well known novel of this 20th century Irish writer is Ulysses Answer James Joyce 8 This May 1916 battle was the only major sea battle between the British and Germans during World War 1 Answer Battle of Jutland 9 The pants tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle where they end in a snug cuff and are worn primarily for horseback riding Answer jodhpurs

10 One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity this emperorrsquos rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire and is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii or restoration of the empirerdquo Answer Justinian Bonus Round 2 This Letter Category brought to you by the letter ldquoGrdquo - KEY 1 This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue Answer George Gershwin 2 The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel Answer The Grapes of Wrath

3 650 miles off the Pacific coast these islands are owned by Ecuador Answer Galapagos Islands 4 Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s this was the public policy of Soviet openness Answer Glasnost 5 This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants Answer Gary 6 This man was the 18th President of the United States Answer Ulysses S Grant

7 Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US Answer Glaucoma 8 This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his ldquoback to Africardquo movement Answer Marcus Garvey 9 What is the official processed food of Georgia Answer Grits

10 What is the name of the famous search engine which changes with important dates throughout the year Answer Google Round 1 Toss-Up Questions

1 2 Charlotte Jacksonville Birmingham ndash place these southern cities in order from largest to smallest a Answer Jacksonville Charlotte Birmingham (213)

2 Written after its authors baptism in the Church of England the third section of this cycle of poems takes its name from a group of rocks off the English coast ldquoThe Dry Salvagesrdquo It also includes the sections ldquoBurnt Nortonrdquo ldquoEast Cokerrdquo and ldquoLittle Giddingrdquo For 10 points name this musically titled cycle of poems by T S Eliot ANSWER Four Quartets

3 John Kerry Shannon OBrien Mitt Romney ndash Which of these people was recently elected governor of Massachusetts Answer Mitt Romney (3)

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

British monarch died at the hands of Henry Tudors Lancastrian ending the Wars of the Roses- Richard III 9 This British monarch and her husband Prince Philip Mountbatten have traveled the globe representing British interests Marital failures by her sons Charles (the Prince of Wales) and Andrew have plagued her reign Name this representative of the modern ceremonial monarchy - Elizabeth II 10 This British monarch invaded England in 1153 While king he developed the common law and due process but fought with Thomas (agrave) Becket over submission to the Pope Henry had Becket executed in 1170 but performed penance at Canterbury Name this British monarch - Henry II 11 Third son of Henry II he spent only five months of his reign in England He went on the Third Crusade to Jerusalem winning many victories in the Holy Land but on his way back was captured and ransomed by Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI He also fought Philip II in Normandy and died while defending his possessions in Aquitaine Name this British monarch - Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) 12 Actually just the King of Wessex in southwestern England this British monarch expelled the rival Danes from the Mercian town of London in 886 eventually conquering most of the Danelaw territory He also kept England from the worst of the Dark Ages by encouraging his bishops to foster literacy Name this British monarch - Alfred the Great RUSSIAN TSARS 1 His Grand Embassy to Europe enabled him to learn about Western life because of this he later invited Western artisans to come to Russia required the boyars to shave their beards and wear Western clothing and even founded a new capital St Petersburg--his window on the West He also led his country in the Great Northern War created a Table of Ranks for the nobility and reformed the bureaucracy and army Name the Russian tsar famous for both his push for Westernization and for his boisterous personality - Peter I 2 This Russian tsar wasnt really a Russian at all she was born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst and was chosen as the bride of the future Peter III She had thoroughly Russianized herself by the time Peter became tsar and soon had him deposed She corresponded with Enlightenment philosophes granted charters of rights and obligations to the nobility and the towns oversaw the partition of Poland and expanded the empire Name the Russian tsar that is well known for her extravagant love life - Catherine II 3 The last of the Romanovs this Russian tsar ruled until his overthrow in the February Revolution of 1917 He is usually seen as both a kind man who loved his family and an incapable monarch who helped bring about the end of the tsarist state He led his country through two disastrous wars the Russo-Japanese War and World War I Name the Russian tsar that was shot in 1918 - Nicholas II 4 This Russian tsar embarked on a program of Great Reforms soon after taking the throne near the end of the Crimean War The most famous part of his program was the serf emancipation of 1861--a reform which occurred almost simultaneously with the end of American slavery But he also introduced a system of local governing bodies called zemstvos tried to increase the rule of law in the court system eased censorship and reorganized the army Name the Russian tsar that was assassinated in 1881 - Alexander II CIVIL WAR BATTLES1

1 In order to claim true independence from the Union Jefferson Davis decided that the Union forts needed to be taken a Confederate force under PGT Beauregard ordered the small Union garrison controlled by Major Robert Anderson to surrender Anderson refused shots were fired and the Union commander surrendered two days later with only one soldier killed The Union made two unsuccessful attempts to recapture the fort with ironclad ships in 1863 but Confederate forces finally abandoned Sumter when they left Charleston in February 1865 Name this Civil War battle - Fort Sumter

2 Fought at a creek near Manassas Virginia this was the first major showdown of the Civil war Beauregard led an army against Union commander Irwin McDowell The Confederacy routed the Union when Thomas Jacksons brigade held the left line at Henry House Hill Name this Civil War battle that had congressmen expecting to watch a Union victory fleeing in panic back to DC Name this Civil War battle - First Bull Run First Manassas

3 A channel in southeastern Virginia was the site of the first major fight between two ironclad ships The Confederates raised an old wooden boat the Merrimack and fit it with ten guns and iron armor plates Renaming the Virginia The Union countered by constructing a large oval with a rotating gun called the Monitor The Virginia tore through Union wooden ships but when the Monitor arrived the two ironclads fought to a stalemate - thus the Union maintained its blockade Name this Civil War battle - Hampton Roads

4 This Civil War battle was named after a church in Pittsburg Landing Tennessee Confederate commander Albert Sidney Johnston led a force north from Mississippi Ulysses S Grant who had just captured Fort Donelson brought five Union divisions to face him At first the South led the attack but Union troops held the Hornets Nest for hours killing Johnston in the process Beauregard took over but by the second day Northern Generals Don Carlos Buell and Lew Wallace brought reinforcements causing the Confederates to retreat Name this Civil War battle - Shiloh Pittsburg Landing

5 Union commander George McClellan devised this plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond Virginia by sending 110000 men up the peninsula between the York and James rivers Advised of Northern maneuvers Southern commander Joseph Johnston detached a force to defend the peninsula He also sent a small unit that crushed Union reinforcements in the West Name this civil war campaign leading to McClellans retreat down the James toward Harrisons Landing-Peninsular Campaign

6 This resounding victory by Lee and Jackson pushed Union forces back to Washington DC President Lincoln had replaced McClellan with John Pope who would supposedly be united with the Army of the Potomac commanded by Henry Halleck Lee maneuvered Jacksons troops behind those of Pope Jackson detained Popes men at Manassas while Lee sent James Longstreet to crush Popes left flank Hallecks army was supposed to land at Aquia but instead retreated to defend Washington ceding all of Virginia to the Confederacy and marking a low point in the Union effort Name this civil war battle - Second Bull Run Second Manassas

7 The bloodiest day of the Civil War 12000 Union men lost their lives as did 10000 Confederates Lee planned a northern invasion into Maryland but a Union soldier discovered those battle plans wrapped around three cigars Instead Lee marched his army toward Sharpsburg Creek Meanwhile Jacksons forces captured Harpers Ferry Virginia and rushed to reunite with Lee McClellan had a large enough force to capture the entire rebel army but did not use all of his troops nor coordinate one solid attack This civil war battle was actually a series of five skirmishes -Antietam Sharpsburg

8 At this site about 50 miles south of Washington Union commander Ambrose Burnside tried to take the initiative and cross the Rappahannock River in a march toward Richmond He met Lees forces which were well entrenched in the hills behind the town With a superior position Lee routed the Union army 13000 Northern troops fell there while only 5000 Confederates were killed After the battle Burnsides troops were forced to make The Mud March up the Rappahannock made foul by weather and dead and wounded bodies Name this civil war battle -Fredericksburg Maryes Heights 9 This campaign was launched by Grant to take control of the Mississippi River and cut off the western Confederate states from the east Grant ordered regiments led by James McPherson John McClernand and William Tecumseh Sherman through bayous west of the Mississippi to Hard Times Name this civil war battle that caused Johnston to withdraw east - Vicksburg Campaign 10 This battle is known as a victory for the South but with great cost as Stonewall Jackson lost his life Lincoln called on Fighting Joe Hooker to command the Union army Hooker took a force of 134000 and provoked Lee and Jacksons 60000 men into battle Jackson moved around Hooker and counterattacked the Union flank on May 2 That night while Jackson was on reconnaissance his own men mistook him for a Northerner and shot him Name the civil war battle that followed with the death of Jackson eight days later -Chancellorsville 11 This marked both the farthest northward advancement by the Confederacy and the turning point that led to its defeat Lee along with Longstreet AP Hill and Richard Ewell led the southern

Pennsylvania attack George Meade replaced Hooker as leader of the Union side Southern forces drove Northerners through the town but could not secure key positions at Cemetery Ridge and Little and Big Round Tops Low on supplies on the final day Lee ordered an attack on the center George Pickett led his famous charge through open fields where the Union mowed down one-third of his 15000 men The Confederates lost 20000 and Lee retreated to Virginia Name this civil war battle - Gettysburg AMERICAN WAR SHIPS

1 USS Constitution Better known as Old Ironsides the Constitution was one of the first six ships commissioned by the US Navy after the American Revolution Launched from Boston in 1797 the Constitution first saw action as the squadron flagship in the Quasi-War with France from 1799-1801 and also fought in the Barbary War and the War of 1812 She later served many years as the nations flagship in the Mediterranean Retired from active duty in 1846 the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides saved her from the scrap yard--she became the training ship of the US Naval Academy until the mid-1880s She became the symbolic flagship of the US Navy in 1940 and is now a floating museum in Boston

2 USS Chesapeake The USS Chesapeake was built at what is now the Norfolk Naval Shipyard between 1798 and 1799 The Chesapeake was attacked by the British Leopard off Cape Henry in 1807 (which led to the duel between Commodores James Barron and Stephen Decatur) one of the causes of the War of 1812 She was captured off Boston in 1813 by the British frigate Shannon on which occasion her commander Capt James Lawrence uttered his celebrated dying words Dont give up the ship which have become a tradition in the US Navy 3 USS LawrenceUSS Niagara Oliver Hazard Perrys decisive victory over the British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10 1813 ensured American control of the Great Lakes during the War of 1812 In the battle Perrys flagship the USS Lawrence was severely damaged and four-fifths of her crew killed or wounded Commodore Perry and a small contingent rowed a half-mile through heavy gunfire to another American ship the USS Niagara Boarding and taking command he brought her into battle and soundly defeated the British fleet Perry summarized the fight in a now-famous message to General William Henry Harrison We have met the enemy and they are ours 4 USS MonitorCSS Virginia [aka USS Merrimack] After departing Union forces burned the Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk in April 1861 yard workers salvaged the USS Merrimack and converted her into the ironclad CSS Virginia On March 8 1862 the CSS Virginia left the shipyard and sank two Union warships in Hampton Roads The Souths ironclad rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and set fire to and sank the USS Congress one of the nations first six frigates The Monitor was sent to end its rampage and the two ironclads battled for 3 12 hours before the Virginia ran aground in its attempt to ram the USS Minnesota Visibly damaged the Virginia retreated and the Monitor withdrew to protect the Minnesota The Confederates destroyed the Virginia soon after to prevent her capture by Union forces The Monitor victorious in her first battle sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras NC The shipwreck is a national underwater sanctuary under the purview of the NOAA 5 USS Maine (ACR-1) [Second class] The first Maine a second-class armored battleship was launched in 1889 A part of the Great White Fleet in 1897 the Maine sailed for Havana to show the flag and protect American citizens Shortly after 940 pm on February 15 1898 the battleship was torn apart by a tremendous explosion The court of inquiry convened in March was unable to obtain evidence associating the blast with any person or persons but public opinion--inflamed by yellow journalism--was such that the Maine disaster led to the declaration of war on Spain on April 21 1898 6 USS Arizona (BB-39) [Pennsylvania class] A lead ship of the honor escort for President Wilsons trip to France in 1918 she was on Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor when Japanese aircraft appeared just before 800 am on Sunday December 7 1941 The Arizona came under attack almost immediately and at about 810 was hit by an 800-kilogram bomb just forward of turret two on the starboard side Within a few seconds the forward powder magazines exploded killing 1177 of the crew and the ship sank to the bottom of the harbor In 1962 the USS Arizona memorial opened and is now administered by the National Park Service

7 USS Missouri (BB-63) [Iowa class] The fourth USS Missouri was the last battleship completed by the United States she was laid down January 6 1941 by New York Naval Shipyard The Missouri was launched January 29 1944 and received her sponsorship from Miss Margaret Truman daughter of then Missouri Senator Harry S Truman Commissioned on June 11 1944 the Mighty Mo as she became known sailed for the Pacific and quickly became the flagship of Admiral Halsey which is why she was chosen as the site of the formal surrender of the Empire of Japan on the morning of September 1 1945 8 USS Nautilus (SSN-571) [Nautilus class] In 1951 Congress authorized construction of the worlds first nuclear-powered submarine On December 12 of that year the Navy Department announced that she would be the sixth ship of the fleet to bear the name Nautilus She was launched on January 21 1954 Eight months later on September 30 1954 the Nautilus became the first commissioned nuclear-powered ship in the US Navy On the morning of January 17 1955 Nautilus Cmdr Wilkinson signaled Underway on Nuclear Power In 1958 she departed Pearl Harbor under top secret orders to conduct Operation Sunshine the first crossing of the North Pole by a ship THINGS YOU HAVE TO KNOW FIVE OF

1 The Waste Land The five parts of T S Eliots 1922 masterpiece The Waste Land are The Burial of the Dead A Game of Chess The Fire Sermon Death By Water and What the Thunder Said

2 Mitosis The five stages of the biological process of mitosis (the production of new body cells from existing ones) are interphase prophase metaphase anaphase and telophase Interphase is not technically a part of mitosis but it still sometimes finds its way in 3 Nobel Prize Winners The five original winners of Nobel Prizes (1901) were Wilhelm Roumlntgen (physics for the discovery of X rays) Jacobus Henricus van t Hoff (chemistry for laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure) Emil Adolf von Behring (physiology or medicine for his serum therapy remedy for diphtheria) Sully Prudhomme (literature for his idealistic poetry) and Henri Dunant and Freacutedeacuteric Passy (peace for founding the International Red Cross and the first French peace society respectively) 4 The Mighty Handful Five nationalist Russian composers are often referred to as The Mighty Handful or The Five They are Modest Mussorgsky (1839 -1881) Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) Cesar Cui (1835-1918) and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) 5 D-Day The codenames for the five beaches attacked in Operation Overlord on D-Day are Gold Juno Sword Utah and Omaha The first three were attacked by British and Canadian forces while the latter two were assaulted by American troops 6 Orders of Architecture There are five classical orders of architecture a term that primarily refers to the design of the columns used in the building They are the Doric (simple used for the Parthenon) Ionic (fancier fluted with scrolls on their capitals) Corinthian (baroque fluted with acanthus-like leaves for capitals) Tuscan (plain similar to Doric) and Composite (mixture of Ionic and Corinthian) The latter two orders are Roman developments the other three originated with the Greeks 7 Cooperstown The first five members elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame were Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Honus Wagner Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson 8 Spectral Lines Hydrogen produces an infinite series of spectral lines The first five of those series are named after scientists who observed them before it was known that they were actually examples of the same phenomenon From lowest to highest energy of the final level they are known as the Lyman Balmer Paschen Brackett and Pfund series Only the Balmer series exists in the visible spectrum 9 Platonic Solids There are only five regular polyhedra three-dimensional shapes with congruent regular polygons for sides These known as the Platonic solids are the tetrahedron (4 triangular sides) cube (6 square sides) octahedron (8 triangular sides) dodecahedron (12 pentagonal sides) and icosahedron (20 triangular sides) 10 Pillars of Islam Islam has five fundamental tenets of religious life a group known as the Pillars of Islam They are the declaration of faith (Shahadah) prayer (Salat) giving charity to those in need (Zakat) fasting during the month of Ramadan (Sawm) and the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) to be performed once in each adherents lifetime

WORKS OF LITERATURE 1 A tragedy by William Shakespeare probably written between 1599 and 1601 The play

set in Denmark recounts how a Prince exacts revenge on his uncle who has murdered his father the King and then took the throne and married his mother The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness from overwhelming grief to seething rage and explores themes of treachery revenge incest and moral corruption ndash Hamlet

2 Whose book The Bonfire of the Vanities contains 2343 exclamation points ndashTom Wolfersquos 3 A play written by William Shakespeare it is generally accepted to be Shakespeares last play

solely written by him Although listed as a comedy in the first Folio many modern editors have relabeled the play a romance First published in the First Folio of 1623 but generally dated to 1610-11 it did not attract a significant amount of attention before the closing of the theatres in 1642 and after the Restoration it attained great popularity only in adapted versions Theatre productions returned conclusively to the original Shakespearean text in the mid-nineteenth century ndash The Tempest

4 This work of literature is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the Greek language making it the first work of European literature The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence possible multiple authors The poem concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Troy ndash The Iliad

5 This novel written in 1851 by Herman Melville The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab Ishmael soon learns that Ahab does not mean to use the Pequod and her crew to hunt whales for market trade as whaling ships generally do Ahab seeks one specific whale Comparatively few whaling ships know of this whale and fewer yet have knowingly encountered the whale ndash Moby Dick

6 This work of literature is among the best-known of William Shakespeares works and is his shortest tragedy It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels and frequently adapted Often regarded as archetypal the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends For the plot Shakespeare drew loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland by Raphael Holinshed and that by the Scottish philosopher Hector Boece There are many superstitions centered on the belief the play is somehow cursed and many actors will not mention the name of the play aloud referring to it instead as the Scottish play ndash Macbeth

7 A French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire this novella tells the tale of young man who has been indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism but becomes disillusioned after witnessing and experiencing many great hardships With a plot similar to that of a more serious picaresque novel or bildungsroman the novel parodies many adventure and romance clicheacutes and the plights of the characters are described in a tone which is mordantly matter-of-fact Through the allegory of the novel Voltaire pokes fun at religion and theologians governments and armies philosophies and philosophers most visibly Voltaire rails against Leibniz and his optimism ndash Candide

8 In this novel written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1808 the protagonist of a classic German legend makes a pact with the Devil The tale is the basis for many literary artistic cinematic and musical works such as those by Christopher Marlowe Goethe Thomas Mann Hector Berlioz Franz Liszt and Charles Gounod The name Faust has come to stand for a charlatan alchemist (some claim astrologer and necromancer) whose pride and vanity lead to his doom ndash Faust

9 A play by William Shakespeare and written around the year 1603 revolves around four central characters Othello his wife Desdemona his lieutenant Cassio and his trusted advisor Iago Because of its varied themes mdash racism love jealousy and betrayal - the play remains relevant to the present day and is still very popular ndash Othello

10 A romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens Theseus and Hippolyta and with fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest The play is one of Shakespeares most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world ndash A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream

11 First published on 28 January 1813 is the most famous of Jane Austens novels and one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel The book is Jane Austens second published novel Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797 initially called First Impressions but was never published under that title Following revisions it was first published on 28 January 1813 Like both its predecessors Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey it was written in Steventon Hampshire where Austen lived in the rectory ndash Pride and Prejudice

AMERICAN HISTORY 1 Who orbited the earth three times in the Friendship 7 ndashJohn Glenn 2 Born in 1912 this Oklahoma born folk singer is known for such songs as The Land is Your Land and Blowin Down This long Dusty Road ndashWoody Guthrie 3 The Shenandoah Valley is located in which state- Virginia 4 During what year did the American Civil War come to an end -1865 5 What comic strip featured such characters as daisy Mae Fearless Fosdick and Gat Garson ndashLilrsquo Abner 6 What Ivy League school is located in New Haven ndashYale 7 In the world of automobile racing what does NASCAR stand for- National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing 8 Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake are both found in which state ndashNew York 9 Labor leader Cesar Chavez led the boycott of what Californian produce during the 1960s ndash Grapes 10 What killed over 2000 people in Johnstown Pennsylvania in 1889 ndasha flood 11 What Holocaust survivor and American author was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 ndash Elie Wiesel 12 What novel exploring the conflicts of mixed race man in America did James Weldon Johnson publish in 1912- The autobiography of an Ex-colored man 13 What acclaimed novelist was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil war and World War Two ndash Ernest Hemingway 14 What explorer sailing for the Netherlands explored the Hudson River in 1609 ndashHenry Hudson 15 Jonas Salk is best known for developing a vaccine against what disease ndashPolio 16 What is the highest mountain found in the United States ndashMt McKinley 17 What popular American song is sung to the tune of the old British drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven ndashThe Star Spangled Banner 18 After converting to Christainity who changed her name to Rebecca and traveled to Britain to meet the King of England ndashPocahontas 19 Who won a Grammy Award for the song From a Distance ndashBette Midler 20 voters in what southern state adopted a new flag in 2003 ndashGeorgia 21 What generalrsquos farewell speech included the now famous line ldquoold soldiers never die they just fade awayrdquo- General Douglas MacArthur 22 ldquoOperation Overlordrdquo was the code name for the invasion of what country ndashFrance 23 During three days of rioting in New York city in 1863 over 1000 people were killed What prompted the riots ndashdraft of union forces in the civil war 24 Who was the president of the confederate states of America during the civil war ndashJefferson Davis 25 What company was founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak in 1976 ndashapple computers 26 What John Steinbeck novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 ndashGrapes of Wrath 27 Who is best known for his painting American gothic ndashGrant Wood 28 What legendary back robber did the ldquolady in redrdquo betray to federal agents ndashJohn Dillinger 29 Who commanded the American forces in Vietnam until 1968 ndashGeneral William Westmoreland

30 Blondie and Dagwood have appeared in newspapers for over half a century Name their two children ndashalexander and cookie 31 Who won the battle of pea ridge ndashthe union 32 What was the first American city to host the summer Olympics ndashst louis (1904) 33 Lopez Orcas and Waldron all belong to what group of islands ndashSan Juan 34 Completed in 1825 what was nicknamed the ldquoBig Ditchrdquo ndashThe Erie Canal 35 What band leader was known as the ldquoMarch Kingrdquo ndashJohn Phillip Sousa 36 Where did the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific meet in 1869 creating the nationrsquos first transcontinental railroad ndashPromontory Utah 37 What feat did Captain Chuck Yeager accomplish in 1947 in the Bell X-1 ndashhe broke the speed of sound 38 Who was the first secretary of the treasury in the United States ndashAlexander Hamilton 39 What film is based on the lives of socialites claus and Sunny von Bulow ndashReversal of Fortune 40 Who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling ndashMajorie Kinnan Rawlings 41 What associated press correspondent was freed in 1991 after spending 2455 days in captivity ndashTerry Anderson 42 In 1913 the 16th amendment of the constitution was passed allowing the federal government to do what ndash tax personal income Countries and Their Capitals

Russia Moscow

Andorra Andorra LaVella

Austria Vienna

Belgium Brussels

Denmark Copenhagen

Finland Helsinki

France Paris

Germany Berlin

Greece Athens

Holy See (Vatican City)

Vatican City

Iceland Reykjavik

Ireland Dublin

Italy Rome

Liechtenstein

Vaduz

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Malta Valletta

Monaco Monaco

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Norway Oslo

Portugal Lisbon

San Marino San Marino

Spain Madrid

Sweden Stockholm

Switzerland Bern

United Kingdom

London

Albania Tirana

Armenia Yerevan

Azerbaijan Baku

Belarus Minsk

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Bulgaria Sofia

Croatia Zagreb

Czech Republic

Prague

Estonia Tallinn

Georgia Tbilisi

Hungary Budapest

Latvia Riga

Lithuania Vilnius

Macedonia Skopje

Moldova Chisinau

Poland Warsaw

Romania Bucharest

Serbia and Montenegro

Belgrade

Slovakia Bratislave

Slovenia Ljubjana

Ukraine Kiev

Cyprus Nicosia

Turkey Ankara

Scotland Edinburgh

Wales Cardiff

Northern Ireland

Belfast

States and Their Capitals

Alabama - Montgomery

Alaska - Juneau

Arizona - Phoenix

Arkansas - Little Rock

California - Sacramento

Colorado - Denver

Connecticut - Hartford

Delaware - Dover

Florida - Tallahassee

Georgia - Atlanta

Hawaii - Honolulu

Idaho - Boise

Illinois - Springfield

Indiana - Indianapolis

Iowa - Des Moines

Kansas - Topeka

Kentucky - Frankfort

Louisiana - Baton Rouge

Maine - Augusta

Maryland - Annapolis

Massachusetts - Boston

Michigan - Lansing

Minnesota - St Paul

Mississippi - Jackson

Missouri - Jefferson City

Montana - Helena

Nebraska - Lincoln

Nevada - Carson City

New Hampshire - Concord

New Jersey - Trenton

New Mexico - Santa Fe

New York - Albany

North Carolina - Raleigh

North Dakota - Bismarck

Ohio - Columbus

Oklahoma - Oklahoma City

Oregon - Salem

Pennsylvania - Harrisburg

Rhode Island - Providence

South Carolina - Columbia

South Dakota - Pierre

Tennessee - Nashville

Texas - Austin

Utah - Salt Lake City

Vermont - Montpelier

Virginia - Richmond

Washington - Olympia

West Virginia ndash Charleston

Wisconsin - Madison

Wyoming ndash Cheyenne

RANDOM KNOWLEDGE 1 Where are the Transvall and Orange Free State provinces ndashSouth Africa 2 What war did the Potsdam Conference follow ndashWorld War II 3 During his presidency the White House bought 12 tons of jelly beans from the Goelitz Candy

Company between January 1981 and September 1988 ndashRonald Reagan 4 What was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans ndashGeorge Elliot 5 He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Lepanto an injury of which he was very proud He had a

rivalry with his contemporary Lope de Vegas whom he regarded as an inferior writer Name this author who was in prison at Argamasilla in La Mancha when he created character such as Dulcinea Sancho Panza and don Quixote ndashMiguel De Cervantes

6 This nationrsquos flag like that of the US features seven horizontal alternating red and white stripes In the upper-left corner however where the US flag has stars this countryrsquos flag has a yellow cresecent moon and smaller sun on a blue field It shares borders with Thailand Indonesia and Brunei What is this Southeast Asian nation with capital at Kuala Lumpur ndashMalaysia

7 Their name comes from the Greek word for salt producer and these elements react with metals to form ionic halide salts They are all reactive with the reactivity decreasing down the group As typical non metals they have high electronegativities and ionization energies and form compounds by gaining an electron to complete a stable configuration What is this group of elements also known as group 17 which includes fluorine bromine and iodine ndashHalogens

8 To qualify for it one had to be male a US citizen (or at least have filed for citizenship) and either be the head of a family or over 21 years old It granted 160 acres of public land free of charge of settlers who agreed to stay at least five years and to cultivate their parcel What was this 1862 act which promoted the agricultural development of the west ndashHomestead Act

9 Alexander the Great sought out this wise man and upon finding him lying in a tub offered to give him whatever he wanted He wise man replied ldquoI want you to get out of my sunrdquo He earned the nickname ldquocyonrdquo meaning dog for his habit of wandering around naked and sleeping in dog houses Who was this Greek philosopher founder of the cynics who was said to search the earth with his lamp looking for an honest man-Diogenes

10 He was born in Bohemia and trained at the Vienna Conservatory eventually becoming conductor of the Prague Opera His second symphony was called the ldquoRessurectionrdquo while his first was known as the ldquoTitanrdquo In a sad irony one of his own children died soon after he completed his song cycle ldquoSongs on the Death of Childrenrdquo Name this composer whose ldquoSymphony of a Thousandrdquo doesnrsquot take quite that many musicians ndashGustav Mahler

11 The single name which designates each of these rulers is the Arabic word for tiger One invaded India and won a decisive victory at Paniput in 1526 The other constantly fights against his rival King Rataxas who happens to be a whino One was the founder of the Moghol Empire the other is King of the Elephants Give the common name ndashBabar

12 It is the second-most common neurological disorder trailing only strokes and affecting one percent of the population Attacks are intiated by abnormal synchronous electrical discharges from millions of neurons in the brain contracting skeletal muscles involuntarily In many cases the reticular activation system is depressed so the victim loses consciousness What is this disorder whose seizures are classified as grand mal or petit mal ndashEpilepsy

13 In the background are three arches which impose formal composition to the scene On the right are two women in draped gown resting their foreheads together sadly Just to the left of them a women hugs two small children In the center of the scene stands a man holding three swords and exhorting the three figures who face him their arms straight forward in a Roman salute This describes what 1785 painting by Jacques-Louis David (dah-veed) ndashThe Oath of Horatii

14 A poor Presbyterian minister from Leeds England he met Benjamin Franklin in 1767 and became interested in electricity and chemistry He began studying the vats of a nearby brewery fascinated by the different prosperities of the gases emitted by them One gas he noticed extinguished the burning chips of wood he had placed over it In 1774 he isolated the gas which he called ldquodephlogisticated airrdquo Name this British scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen ndashJoseph Priestly

15 It takes place on June 27th of an unnamed year The master of ceremonies is Mr Summers who is assisted by the postmaster Mr Graves Old Man Warner complains that the procedure is no longer carried out as formally as when he was a boy Only heads of families draw and when itrsquos done Bill Hutchinson finds himself holding the slip of paper with the black dot on it This is a brief description of what classic short story by Shirley Jackson ndashThe lottery

16 He was the only completely clean-shaven president to serve between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson He was also last president who was a Civil War veteran having served on the staff of a colonel named Rutherford B Hayes Governor of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 his campaign was directed by the king maker Mark Hanna Name this president assassinated in 1901 ndashWilliam McKinley

17 Evaluate the integral from negative 2 to 2 of sin3x with respect to x -0 18 Fly-by missions of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1980 and 1981 gave scientists more information about

this planet than had been accumulated since Galileo first viewed it telescopically in 1610 The missions discovered that the planetrsquos atmosphere is dynamic with wind storms gusting over 1500 kilometers per hour

Bonus Round 1 ANSWERS Letter Category ndash brought to you by the letter ldquoJrdquo 1 From 213 to 144 million years ago it was the second period of the Mesozoic era Answer Jurassic period 2 This is the SI unit of mechanical work Answer Joule 3 This American official was a co-author of the Federalist Papers Answer John Jay (accept J)

4 The seat of Duval County it is the largest city in the state of Florida Answer Jacksonville 5 A wicker basket is attached to the playerrsquos arm to hurl the small rubber ball in this popular Spanish sport similar to handball Answer Jai Alai (pron hindashlie) 6 This 20th century American artist was one of the leading proponents of pop art Answer Jasper Johns 7 The most well known novel of this 20th century Irish writer is Ulysses Answer James Joyce 8 This May 1916 battle was the only major sea battle between the British and Germans during World War 1 Answer Battle of Jutland 9 The pants tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle where they end in a snug cuff and are worn primarily for horseback riding Answer jodhpurs

10 One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity this emperorrsquos rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire and is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii or restoration of the empirerdquo Answer Justinian Bonus Round 2 This Letter Category brought to you by the letter ldquoGrdquo - KEY 1 This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue Answer George Gershwin 2 The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel Answer The Grapes of Wrath

3 650 miles off the Pacific coast these islands are owned by Ecuador Answer Galapagos Islands 4 Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s this was the public policy of Soviet openness Answer Glasnost 5 This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants Answer Gary 6 This man was the 18th President of the United States Answer Ulysses S Grant

7 Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US Answer Glaucoma 8 This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his ldquoback to Africardquo movement Answer Marcus Garvey 9 What is the official processed food of Georgia Answer Grits

10 What is the name of the famous search engine which changes with important dates throughout the year Answer Google Round 1 Toss-Up Questions

1 2 Charlotte Jacksonville Birmingham ndash place these southern cities in order from largest to smallest a Answer Jacksonville Charlotte Birmingham (213)

2 Written after its authors baptism in the Church of England the third section of this cycle of poems takes its name from a group of rocks off the English coast ldquoThe Dry Salvagesrdquo It also includes the sections ldquoBurnt Nortonrdquo ldquoEast Cokerrdquo and ldquoLittle Giddingrdquo For 10 points name this musically titled cycle of poems by T S Eliot ANSWER Four Quartets

3 John Kerry Shannon OBrien Mitt Romney ndash Which of these people was recently elected governor of Massachusetts Answer Mitt Romney (3)

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

3 A channel in southeastern Virginia was the site of the first major fight between two ironclad ships The Confederates raised an old wooden boat the Merrimack and fit it with ten guns and iron armor plates Renaming the Virginia The Union countered by constructing a large oval with a rotating gun called the Monitor The Virginia tore through Union wooden ships but when the Monitor arrived the two ironclads fought to a stalemate - thus the Union maintained its blockade Name this Civil War battle - Hampton Roads

4 This Civil War battle was named after a church in Pittsburg Landing Tennessee Confederate commander Albert Sidney Johnston led a force north from Mississippi Ulysses S Grant who had just captured Fort Donelson brought five Union divisions to face him At first the South led the attack but Union troops held the Hornets Nest for hours killing Johnston in the process Beauregard took over but by the second day Northern Generals Don Carlos Buell and Lew Wallace brought reinforcements causing the Confederates to retreat Name this Civil War battle - Shiloh Pittsburg Landing

5 Union commander George McClellan devised this plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond Virginia by sending 110000 men up the peninsula between the York and James rivers Advised of Northern maneuvers Southern commander Joseph Johnston detached a force to defend the peninsula He also sent a small unit that crushed Union reinforcements in the West Name this civil war campaign leading to McClellans retreat down the James toward Harrisons Landing-Peninsular Campaign

6 This resounding victory by Lee and Jackson pushed Union forces back to Washington DC President Lincoln had replaced McClellan with John Pope who would supposedly be united with the Army of the Potomac commanded by Henry Halleck Lee maneuvered Jacksons troops behind those of Pope Jackson detained Popes men at Manassas while Lee sent James Longstreet to crush Popes left flank Hallecks army was supposed to land at Aquia but instead retreated to defend Washington ceding all of Virginia to the Confederacy and marking a low point in the Union effort Name this civil war battle - Second Bull Run Second Manassas

7 The bloodiest day of the Civil War 12000 Union men lost their lives as did 10000 Confederates Lee planned a northern invasion into Maryland but a Union soldier discovered those battle plans wrapped around three cigars Instead Lee marched his army toward Sharpsburg Creek Meanwhile Jacksons forces captured Harpers Ferry Virginia and rushed to reunite with Lee McClellan had a large enough force to capture the entire rebel army but did not use all of his troops nor coordinate one solid attack This civil war battle was actually a series of five skirmishes -Antietam Sharpsburg

8 At this site about 50 miles south of Washington Union commander Ambrose Burnside tried to take the initiative and cross the Rappahannock River in a march toward Richmond He met Lees forces which were well entrenched in the hills behind the town With a superior position Lee routed the Union army 13000 Northern troops fell there while only 5000 Confederates were killed After the battle Burnsides troops were forced to make The Mud March up the Rappahannock made foul by weather and dead and wounded bodies Name this civil war battle -Fredericksburg Maryes Heights 9 This campaign was launched by Grant to take control of the Mississippi River and cut off the western Confederate states from the east Grant ordered regiments led by James McPherson John McClernand and William Tecumseh Sherman through bayous west of the Mississippi to Hard Times Name this civil war battle that caused Johnston to withdraw east - Vicksburg Campaign 10 This battle is known as a victory for the South but with great cost as Stonewall Jackson lost his life Lincoln called on Fighting Joe Hooker to command the Union army Hooker took a force of 134000 and provoked Lee and Jacksons 60000 men into battle Jackson moved around Hooker and counterattacked the Union flank on May 2 That night while Jackson was on reconnaissance his own men mistook him for a Northerner and shot him Name the civil war battle that followed with the death of Jackson eight days later -Chancellorsville 11 This marked both the farthest northward advancement by the Confederacy and the turning point that led to its defeat Lee along with Longstreet AP Hill and Richard Ewell led the southern

Pennsylvania attack George Meade replaced Hooker as leader of the Union side Southern forces drove Northerners through the town but could not secure key positions at Cemetery Ridge and Little and Big Round Tops Low on supplies on the final day Lee ordered an attack on the center George Pickett led his famous charge through open fields where the Union mowed down one-third of his 15000 men The Confederates lost 20000 and Lee retreated to Virginia Name this civil war battle - Gettysburg AMERICAN WAR SHIPS

1 USS Constitution Better known as Old Ironsides the Constitution was one of the first six ships commissioned by the US Navy after the American Revolution Launched from Boston in 1797 the Constitution first saw action as the squadron flagship in the Quasi-War with France from 1799-1801 and also fought in the Barbary War and the War of 1812 She later served many years as the nations flagship in the Mediterranean Retired from active duty in 1846 the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides saved her from the scrap yard--she became the training ship of the US Naval Academy until the mid-1880s She became the symbolic flagship of the US Navy in 1940 and is now a floating museum in Boston

2 USS Chesapeake The USS Chesapeake was built at what is now the Norfolk Naval Shipyard between 1798 and 1799 The Chesapeake was attacked by the British Leopard off Cape Henry in 1807 (which led to the duel between Commodores James Barron and Stephen Decatur) one of the causes of the War of 1812 She was captured off Boston in 1813 by the British frigate Shannon on which occasion her commander Capt James Lawrence uttered his celebrated dying words Dont give up the ship which have become a tradition in the US Navy 3 USS LawrenceUSS Niagara Oliver Hazard Perrys decisive victory over the British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10 1813 ensured American control of the Great Lakes during the War of 1812 In the battle Perrys flagship the USS Lawrence was severely damaged and four-fifths of her crew killed or wounded Commodore Perry and a small contingent rowed a half-mile through heavy gunfire to another American ship the USS Niagara Boarding and taking command he brought her into battle and soundly defeated the British fleet Perry summarized the fight in a now-famous message to General William Henry Harrison We have met the enemy and they are ours 4 USS MonitorCSS Virginia [aka USS Merrimack] After departing Union forces burned the Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk in April 1861 yard workers salvaged the USS Merrimack and converted her into the ironclad CSS Virginia On March 8 1862 the CSS Virginia left the shipyard and sank two Union warships in Hampton Roads The Souths ironclad rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and set fire to and sank the USS Congress one of the nations first six frigates The Monitor was sent to end its rampage and the two ironclads battled for 3 12 hours before the Virginia ran aground in its attempt to ram the USS Minnesota Visibly damaged the Virginia retreated and the Monitor withdrew to protect the Minnesota The Confederates destroyed the Virginia soon after to prevent her capture by Union forces The Monitor victorious in her first battle sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras NC The shipwreck is a national underwater sanctuary under the purview of the NOAA 5 USS Maine (ACR-1) [Second class] The first Maine a second-class armored battleship was launched in 1889 A part of the Great White Fleet in 1897 the Maine sailed for Havana to show the flag and protect American citizens Shortly after 940 pm on February 15 1898 the battleship was torn apart by a tremendous explosion The court of inquiry convened in March was unable to obtain evidence associating the blast with any person or persons but public opinion--inflamed by yellow journalism--was such that the Maine disaster led to the declaration of war on Spain on April 21 1898 6 USS Arizona (BB-39) [Pennsylvania class] A lead ship of the honor escort for President Wilsons trip to France in 1918 she was on Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor when Japanese aircraft appeared just before 800 am on Sunday December 7 1941 The Arizona came under attack almost immediately and at about 810 was hit by an 800-kilogram bomb just forward of turret two on the starboard side Within a few seconds the forward powder magazines exploded killing 1177 of the crew and the ship sank to the bottom of the harbor In 1962 the USS Arizona memorial opened and is now administered by the National Park Service

7 USS Missouri (BB-63) [Iowa class] The fourth USS Missouri was the last battleship completed by the United States she was laid down January 6 1941 by New York Naval Shipyard The Missouri was launched January 29 1944 and received her sponsorship from Miss Margaret Truman daughter of then Missouri Senator Harry S Truman Commissioned on June 11 1944 the Mighty Mo as she became known sailed for the Pacific and quickly became the flagship of Admiral Halsey which is why she was chosen as the site of the formal surrender of the Empire of Japan on the morning of September 1 1945 8 USS Nautilus (SSN-571) [Nautilus class] In 1951 Congress authorized construction of the worlds first nuclear-powered submarine On December 12 of that year the Navy Department announced that she would be the sixth ship of the fleet to bear the name Nautilus She was launched on January 21 1954 Eight months later on September 30 1954 the Nautilus became the first commissioned nuclear-powered ship in the US Navy On the morning of January 17 1955 Nautilus Cmdr Wilkinson signaled Underway on Nuclear Power In 1958 she departed Pearl Harbor under top secret orders to conduct Operation Sunshine the first crossing of the North Pole by a ship THINGS YOU HAVE TO KNOW FIVE OF

1 The Waste Land The five parts of T S Eliots 1922 masterpiece The Waste Land are The Burial of the Dead A Game of Chess The Fire Sermon Death By Water and What the Thunder Said

2 Mitosis The five stages of the biological process of mitosis (the production of new body cells from existing ones) are interphase prophase metaphase anaphase and telophase Interphase is not technically a part of mitosis but it still sometimes finds its way in 3 Nobel Prize Winners The five original winners of Nobel Prizes (1901) were Wilhelm Roumlntgen (physics for the discovery of X rays) Jacobus Henricus van t Hoff (chemistry for laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure) Emil Adolf von Behring (physiology or medicine for his serum therapy remedy for diphtheria) Sully Prudhomme (literature for his idealistic poetry) and Henri Dunant and Freacutedeacuteric Passy (peace for founding the International Red Cross and the first French peace society respectively) 4 The Mighty Handful Five nationalist Russian composers are often referred to as The Mighty Handful or The Five They are Modest Mussorgsky (1839 -1881) Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) Cesar Cui (1835-1918) and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) 5 D-Day The codenames for the five beaches attacked in Operation Overlord on D-Day are Gold Juno Sword Utah and Omaha The first three were attacked by British and Canadian forces while the latter two were assaulted by American troops 6 Orders of Architecture There are five classical orders of architecture a term that primarily refers to the design of the columns used in the building They are the Doric (simple used for the Parthenon) Ionic (fancier fluted with scrolls on their capitals) Corinthian (baroque fluted with acanthus-like leaves for capitals) Tuscan (plain similar to Doric) and Composite (mixture of Ionic and Corinthian) The latter two orders are Roman developments the other three originated with the Greeks 7 Cooperstown The first five members elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame were Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Honus Wagner Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson 8 Spectral Lines Hydrogen produces an infinite series of spectral lines The first five of those series are named after scientists who observed them before it was known that they were actually examples of the same phenomenon From lowest to highest energy of the final level they are known as the Lyman Balmer Paschen Brackett and Pfund series Only the Balmer series exists in the visible spectrum 9 Platonic Solids There are only five regular polyhedra three-dimensional shapes with congruent regular polygons for sides These known as the Platonic solids are the tetrahedron (4 triangular sides) cube (6 square sides) octahedron (8 triangular sides) dodecahedron (12 pentagonal sides) and icosahedron (20 triangular sides) 10 Pillars of Islam Islam has five fundamental tenets of religious life a group known as the Pillars of Islam They are the declaration of faith (Shahadah) prayer (Salat) giving charity to those in need (Zakat) fasting during the month of Ramadan (Sawm) and the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) to be performed once in each adherents lifetime

WORKS OF LITERATURE 1 A tragedy by William Shakespeare probably written between 1599 and 1601 The play

set in Denmark recounts how a Prince exacts revenge on his uncle who has murdered his father the King and then took the throne and married his mother The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness from overwhelming grief to seething rage and explores themes of treachery revenge incest and moral corruption ndash Hamlet

2 Whose book The Bonfire of the Vanities contains 2343 exclamation points ndashTom Wolfersquos 3 A play written by William Shakespeare it is generally accepted to be Shakespeares last play

solely written by him Although listed as a comedy in the first Folio many modern editors have relabeled the play a romance First published in the First Folio of 1623 but generally dated to 1610-11 it did not attract a significant amount of attention before the closing of the theatres in 1642 and after the Restoration it attained great popularity only in adapted versions Theatre productions returned conclusively to the original Shakespearean text in the mid-nineteenth century ndash The Tempest

4 This work of literature is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the Greek language making it the first work of European literature The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence possible multiple authors The poem concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Troy ndash The Iliad

5 This novel written in 1851 by Herman Melville The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab Ishmael soon learns that Ahab does not mean to use the Pequod and her crew to hunt whales for market trade as whaling ships generally do Ahab seeks one specific whale Comparatively few whaling ships know of this whale and fewer yet have knowingly encountered the whale ndash Moby Dick

6 This work of literature is among the best-known of William Shakespeares works and is his shortest tragedy It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels and frequently adapted Often regarded as archetypal the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends For the plot Shakespeare drew loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland by Raphael Holinshed and that by the Scottish philosopher Hector Boece There are many superstitions centered on the belief the play is somehow cursed and many actors will not mention the name of the play aloud referring to it instead as the Scottish play ndash Macbeth

7 A French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire this novella tells the tale of young man who has been indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism but becomes disillusioned after witnessing and experiencing many great hardships With a plot similar to that of a more serious picaresque novel or bildungsroman the novel parodies many adventure and romance clicheacutes and the plights of the characters are described in a tone which is mordantly matter-of-fact Through the allegory of the novel Voltaire pokes fun at religion and theologians governments and armies philosophies and philosophers most visibly Voltaire rails against Leibniz and his optimism ndash Candide

8 In this novel written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1808 the protagonist of a classic German legend makes a pact with the Devil The tale is the basis for many literary artistic cinematic and musical works such as those by Christopher Marlowe Goethe Thomas Mann Hector Berlioz Franz Liszt and Charles Gounod The name Faust has come to stand for a charlatan alchemist (some claim astrologer and necromancer) whose pride and vanity lead to his doom ndash Faust

9 A play by William Shakespeare and written around the year 1603 revolves around four central characters Othello his wife Desdemona his lieutenant Cassio and his trusted advisor Iago Because of its varied themes mdash racism love jealousy and betrayal - the play remains relevant to the present day and is still very popular ndash Othello

10 A romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens Theseus and Hippolyta and with fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest The play is one of Shakespeares most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world ndash A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream

11 First published on 28 January 1813 is the most famous of Jane Austens novels and one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel The book is Jane Austens second published novel Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797 initially called First Impressions but was never published under that title Following revisions it was first published on 28 January 1813 Like both its predecessors Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey it was written in Steventon Hampshire where Austen lived in the rectory ndash Pride and Prejudice

AMERICAN HISTORY 1 Who orbited the earth three times in the Friendship 7 ndashJohn Glenn 2 Born in 1912 this Oklahoma born folk singer is known for such songs as The Land is Your Land and Blowin Down This long Dusty Road ndashWoody Guthrie 3 The Shenandoah Valley is located in which state- Virginia 4 During what year did the American Civil War come to an end -1865 5 What comic strip featured such characters as daisy Mae Fearless Fosdick and Gat Garson ndashLilrsquo Abner 6 What Ivy League school is located in New Haven ndashYale 7 In the world of automobile racing what does NASCAR stand for- National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing 8 Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake are both found in which state ndashNew York 9 Labor leader Cesar Chavez led the boycott of what Californian produce during the 1960s ndash Grapes 10 What killed over 2000 people in Johnstown Pennsylvania in 1889 ndasha flood 11 What Holocaust survivor and American author was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 ndash Elie Wiesel 12 What novel exploring the conflicts of mixed race man in America did James Weldon Johnson publish in 1912- The autobiography of an Ex-colored man 13 What acclaimed novelist was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil war and World War Two ndash Ernest Hemingway 14 What explorer sailing for the Netherlands explored the Hudson River in 1609 ndashHenry Hudson 15 Jonas Salk is best known for developing a vaccine against what disease ndashPolio 16 What is the highest mountain found in the United States ndashMt McKinley 17 What popular American song is sung to the tune of the old British drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven ndashThe Star Spangled Banner 18 After converting to Christainity who changed her name to Rebecca and traveled to Britain to meet the King of England ndashPocahontas 19 Who won a Grammy Award for the song From a Distance ndashBette Midler 20 voters in what southern state adopted a new flag in 2003 ndashGeorgia 21 What generalrsquos farewell speech included the now famous line ldquoold soldiers never die they just fade awayrdquo- General Douglas MacArthur 22 ldquoOperation Overlordrdquo was the code name for the invasion of what country ndashFrance 23 During three days of rioting in New York city in 1863 over 1000 people were killed What prompted the riots ndashdraft of union forces in the civil war 24 Who was the president of the confederate states of America during the civil war ndashJefferson Davis 25 What company was founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak in 1976 ndashapple computers 26 What John Steinbeck novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 ndashGrapes of Wrath 27 Who is best known for his painting American gothic ndashGrant Wood 28 What legendary back robber did the ldquolady in redrdquo betray to federal agents ndashJohn Dillinger 29 Who commanded the American forces in Vietnam until 1968 ndashGeneral William Westmoreland

30 Blondie and Dagwood have appeared in newspapers for over half a century Name their two children ndashalexander and cookie 31 Who won the battle of pea ridge ndashthe union 32 What was the first American city to host the summer Olympics ndashst louis (1904) 33 Lopez Orcas and Waldron all belong to what group of islands ndashSan Juan 34 Completed in 1825 what was nicknamed the ldquoBig Ditchrdquo ndashThe Erie Canal 35 What band leader was known as the ldquoMarch Kingrdquo ndashJohn Phillip Sousa 36 Where did the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific meet in 1869 creating the nationrsquos first transcontinental railroad ndashPromontory Utah 37 What feat did Captain Chuck Yeager accomplish in 1947 in the Bell X-1 ndashhe broke the speed of sound 38 Who was the first secretary of the treasury in the United States ndashAlexander Hamilton 39 What film is based on the lives of socialites claus and Sunny von Bulow ndashReversal of Fortune 40 Who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling ndashMajorie Kinnan Rawlings 41 What associated press correspondent was freed in 1991 after spending 2455 days in captivity ndashTerry Anderson 42 In 1913 the 16th amendment of the constitution was passed allowing the federal government to do what ndash tax personal income Countries and Their Capitals

Russia Moscow

Andorra Andorra LaVella

Austria Vienna

Belgium Brussels

Denmark Copenhagen

Finland Helsinki

France Paris

Germany Berlin

Greece Athens

Holy See (Vatican City)

Vatican City

Iceland Reykjavik

Ireland Dublin

Italy Rome

Liechtenstein

Vaduz

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Malta Valletta

Monaco Monaco

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Norway Oslo

Portugal Lisbon

San Marino San Marino

Spain Madrid

Sweden Stockholm

Switzerland Bern

United Kingdom

London

Albania Tirana

Armenia Yerevan

Azerbaijan Baku

Belarus Minsk

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Bulgaria Sofia

Croatia Zagreb

Czech Republic

Prague

Estonia Tallinn

Georgia Tbilisi

Hungary Budapest

Latvia Riga

Lithuania Vilnius

Macedonia Skopje

Moldova Chisinau

Poland Warsaw

Romania Bucharest

Serbia and Montenegro

Belgrade

Slovakia Bratislave

Slovenia Ljubjana

Ukraine Kiev

Cyprus Nicosia

Turkey Ankara

Scotland Edinburgh

Wales Cardiff

Northern Ireland

Belfast

States and Their Capitals

Alabama - Montgomery

Alaska - Juneau

Arizona - Phoenix

Arkansas - Little Rock

California - Sacramento

Colorado - Denver

Connecticut - Hartford

Delaware - Dover

Florida - Tallahassee

Georgia - Atlanta

Hawaii - Honolulu

Idaho - Boise

Illinois - Springfield

Indiana - Indianapolis

Iowa - Des Moines

Kansas - Topeka

Kentucky - Frankfort

Louisiana - Baton Rouge

Maine - Augusta

Maryland - Annapolis

Massachusetts - Boston

Michigan - Lansing

Minnesota - St Paul

Mississippi - Jackson

Missouri - Jefferson City

Montana - Helena

Nebraska - Lincoln

Nevada - Carson City

New Hampshire - Concord

New Jersey - Trenton

New Mexico - Santa Fe

New York - Albany

North Carolina - Raleigh

North Dakota - Bismarck

Ohio - Columbus

Oklahoma - Oklahoma City

Oregon - Salem

Pennsylvania - Harrisburg

Rhode Island - Providence

South Carolina - Columbia

South Dakota - Pierre

Tennessee - Nashville

Texas - Austin

Utah - Salt Lake City

Vermont - Montpelier

Virginia - Richmond

Washington - Olympia

West Virginia ndash Charleston

Wisconsin - Madison

Wyoming ndash Cheyenne

RANDOM KNOWLEDGE 1 Where are the Transvall and Orange Free State provinces ndashSouth Africa 2 What war did the Potsdam Conference follow ndashWorld War II 3 During his presidency the White House bought 12 tons of jelly beans from the Goelitz Candy

Company between January 1981 and September 1988 ndashRonald Reagan 4 What was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans ndashGeorge Elliot 5 He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Lepanto an injury of which he was very proud He had a

rivalry with his contemporary Lope de Vegas whom he regarded as an inferior writer Name this author who was in prison at Argamasilla in La Mancha when he created character such as Dulcinea Sancho Panza and don Quixote ndashMiguel De Cervantes

6 This nationrsquos flag like that of the US features seven horizontal alternating red and white stripes In the upper-left corner however where the US flag has stars this countryrsquos flag has a yellow cresecent moon and smaller sun on a blue field It shares borders with Thailand Indonesia and Brunei What is this Southeast Asian nation with capital at Kuala Lumpur ndashMalaysia

7 Their name comes from the Greek word for salt producer and these elements react with metals to form ionic halide salts They are all reactive with the reactivity decreasing down the group As typical non metals they have high electronegativities and ionization energies and form compounds by gaining an electron to complete a stable configuration What is this group of elements also known as group 17 which includes fluorine bromine and iodine ndashHalogens

8 To qualify for it one had to be male a US citizen (or at least have filed for citizenship) and either be the head of a family or over 21 years old It granted 160 acres of public land free of charge of settlers who agreed to stay at least five years and to cultivate their parcel What was this 1862 act which promoted the agricultural development of the west ndashHomestead Act

9 Alexander the Great sought out this wise man and upon finding him lying in a tub offered to give him whatever he wanted He wise man replied ldquoI want you to get out of my sunrdquo He earned the nickname ldquocyonrdquo meaning dog for his habit of wandering around naked and sleeping in dog houses Who was this Greek philosopher founder of the cynics who was said to search the earth with his lamp looking for an honest man-Diogenes

10 He was born in Bohemia and trained at the Vienna Conservatory eventually becoming conductor of the Prague Opera His second symphony was called the ldquoRessurectionrdquo while his first was known as the ldquoTitanrdquo In a sad irony one of his own children died soon after he completed his song cycle ldquoSongs on the Death of Childrenrdquo Name this composer whose ldquoSymphony of a Thousandrdquo doesnrsquot take quite that many musicians ndashGustav Mahler

11 The single name which designates each of these rulers is the Arabic word for tiger One invaded India and won a decisive victory at Paniput in 1526 The other constantly fights against his rival King Rataxas who happens to be a whino One was the founder of the Moghol Empire the other is King of the Elephants Give the common name ndashBabar

12 It is the second-most common neurological disorder trailing only strokes and affecting one percent of the population Attacks are intiated by abnormal synchronous electrical discharges from millions of neurons in the brain contracting skeletal muscles involuntarily In many cases the reticular activation system is depressed so the victim loses consciousness What is this disorder whose seizures are classified as grand mal or petit mal ndashEpilepsy

13 In the background are three arches which impose formal composition to the scene On the right are two women in draped gown resting their foreheads together sadly Just to the left of them a women hugs two small children In the center of the scene stands a man holding three swords and exhorting the three figures who face him their arms straight forward in a Roman salute This describes what 1785 painting by Jacques-Louis David (dah-veed) ndashThe Oath of Horatii

14 A poor Presbyterian minister from Leeds England he met Benjamin Franklin in 1767 and became interested in electricity and chemistry He began studying the vats of a nearby brewery fascinated by the different prosperities of the gases emitted by them One gas he noticed extinguished the burning chips of wood he had placed over it In 1774 he isolated the gas which he called ldquodephlogisticated airrdquo Name this British scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen ndashJoseph Priestly

15 It takes place on June 27th of an unnamed year The master of ceremonies is Mr Summers who is assisted by the postmaster Mr Graves Old Man Warner complains that the procedure is no longer carried out as formally as when he was a boy Only heads of families draw and when itrsquos done Bill Hutchinson finds himself holding the slip of paper with the black dot on it This is a brief description of what classic short story by Shirley Jackson ndashThe lottery

16 He was the only completely clean-shaven president to serve between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson He was also last president who was a Civil War veteran having served on the staff of a colonel named Rutherford B Hayes Governor of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 his campaign was directed by the king maker Mark Hanna Name this president assassinated in 1901 ndashWilliam McKinley

17 Evaluate the integral from negative 2 to 2 of sin3x with respect to x -0 18 Fly-by missions of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1980 and 1981 gave scientists more information about

this planet than had been accumulated since Galileo first viewed it telescopically in 1610 The missions discovered that the planetrsquos atmosphere is dynamic with wind storms gusting over 1500 kilometers per hour

Bonus Round 1 ANSWERS Letter Category ndash brought to you by the letter ldquoJrdquo 1 From 213 to 144 million years ago it was the second period of the Mesozoic era Answer Jurassic period 2 This is the SI unit of mechanical work Answer Joule 3 This American official was a co-author of the Federalist Papers Answer John Jay (accept J)

4 The seat of Duval County it is the largest city in the state of Florida Answer Jacksonville 5 A wicker basket is attached to the playerrsquos arm to hurl the small rubber ball in this popular Spanish sport similar to handball Answer Jai Alai (pron hindashlie) 6 This 20th century American artist was one of the leading proponents of pop art Answer Jasper Johns 7 The most well known novel of this 20th century Irish writer is Ulysses Answer James Joyce 8 This May 1916 battle was the only major sea battle between the British and Germans during World War 1 Answer Battle of Jutland 9 The pants tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle where they end in a snug cuff and are worn primarily for horseback riding Answer jodhpurs

10 One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity this emperorrsquos rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire and is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii or restoration of the empirerdquo Answer Justinian Bonus Round 2 This Letter Category brought to you by the letter ldquoGrdquo - KEY 1 This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue Answer George Gershwin 2 The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel Answer The Grapes of Wrath

3 650 miles off the Pacific coast these islands are owned by Ecuador Answer Galapagos Islands 4 Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s this was the public policy of Soviet openness Answer Glasnost 5 This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants Answer Gary 6 This man was the 18th President of the United States Answer Ulysses S Grant

7 Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US Answer Glaucoma 8 This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his ldquoback to Africardquo movement Answer Marcus Garvey 9 What is the official processed food of Georgia Answer Grits

10 What is the name of the famous search engine which changes with important dates throughout the year Answer Google Round 1 Toss-Up Questions

1 2 Charlotte Jacksonville Birmingham ndash place these southern cities in order from largest to smallest a Answer Jacksonville Charlotte Birmingham (213)

2 Written after its authors baptism in the Church of England the third section of this cycle of poems takes its name from a group of rocks off the English coast ldquoThe Dry Salvagesrdquo It also includes the sections ldquoBurnt Nortonrdquo ldquoEast Cokerrdquo and ldquoLittle Giddingrdquo For 10 points name this musically titled cycle of poems by T S Eliot ANSWER Four Quartets

3 John Kerry Shannon OBrien Mitt Romney ndash Which of these people was recently elected governor of Massachusetts Answer Mitt Romney (3)

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

Pennsylvania attack George Meade replaced Hooker as leader of the Union side Southern forces drove Northerners through the town but could not secure key positions at Cemetery Ridge and Little and Big Round Tops Low on supplies on the final day Lee ordered an attack on the center George Pickett led his famous charge through open fields where the Union mowed down one-third of his 15000 men The Confederates lost 20000 and Lee retreated to Virginia Name this civil war battle - Gettysburg AMERICAN WAR SHIPS

1 USS Constitution Better known as Old Ironsides the Constitution was one of the first six ships commissioned by the US Navy after the American Revolution Launched from Boston in 1797 the Constitution first saw action as the squadron flagship in the Quasi-War with France from 1799-1801 and also fought in the Barbary War and the War of 1812 She later served many years as the nations flagship in the Mediterranean Retired from active duty in 1846 the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides saved her from the scrap yard--she became the training ship of the US Naval Academy until the mid-1880s She became the symbolic flagship of the US Navy in 1940 and is now a floating museum in Boston

2 USS Chesapeake The USS Chesapeake was built at what is now the Norfolk Naval Shipyard between 1798 and 1799 The Chesapeake was attacked by the British Leopard off Cape Henry in 1807 (which led to the duel between Commodores James Barron and Stephen Decatur) one of the causes of the War of 1812 She was captured off Boston in 1813 by the British frigate Shannon on which occasion her commander Capt James Lawrence uttered his celebrated dying words Dont give up the ship which have become a tradition in the US Navy 3 USS LawrenceUSS Niagara Oliver Hazard Perrys decisive victory over the British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10 1813 ensured American control of the Great Lakes during the War of 1812 In the battle Perrys flagship the USS Lawrence was severely damaged and four-fifths of her crew killed or wounded Commodore Perry and a small contingent rowed a half-mile through heavy gunfire to another American ship the USS Niagara Boarding and taking command he brought her into battle and soundly defeated the British fleet Perry summarized the fight in a now-famous message to General William Henry Harrison We have met the enemy and they are ours 4 USS MonitorCSS Virginia [aka USS Merrimack] After departing Union forces burned the Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk in April 1861 yard workers salvaged the USS Merrimack and converted her into the ironclad CSS Virginia On March 8 1862 the CSS Virginia left the shipyard and sank two Union warships in Hampton Roads The Souths ironclad rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and set fire to and sank the USS Congress one of the nations first six frigates The Monitor was sent to end its rampage and the two ironclads battled for 3 12 hours before the Virginia ran aground in its attempt to ram the USS Minnesota Visibly damaged the Virginia retreated and the Monitor withdrew to protect the Minnesota The Confederates destroyed the Virginia soon after to prevent her capture by Union forces The Monitor victorious in her first battle sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras NC The shipwreck is a national underwater sanctuary under the purview of the NOAA 5 USS Maine (ACR-1) [Second class] The first Maine a second-class armored battleship was launched in 1889 A part of the Great White Fleet in 1897 the Maine sailed for Havana to show the flag and protect American citizens Shortly after 940 pm on February 15 1898 the battleship was torn apart by a tremendous explosion The court of inquiry convened in March was unable to obtain evidence associating the blast with any person or persons but public opinion--inflamed by yellow journalism--was such that the Maine disaster led to the declaration of war on Spain on April 21 1898 6 USS Arizona (BB-39) [Pennsylvania class] A lead ship of the honor escort for President Wilsons trip to France in 1918 she was on Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor when Japanese aircraft appeared just before 800 am on Sunday December 7 1941 The Arizona came under attack almost immediately and at about 810 was hit by an 800-kilogram bomb just forward of turret two on the starboard side Within a few seconds the forward powder magazines exploded killing 1177 of the crew and the ship sank to the bottom of the harbor In 1962 the USS Arizona memorial opened and is now administered by the National Park Service

7 USS Missouri (BB-63) [Iowa class] The fourth USS Missouri was the last battleship completed by the United States she was laid down January 6 1941 by New York Naval Shipyard The Missouri was launched January 29 1944 and received her sponsorship from Miss Margaret Truman daughter of then Missouri Senator Harry S Truman Commissioned on June 11 1944 the Mighty Mo as she became known sailed for the Pacific and quickly became the flagship of Admiral Halsey which is why she was chosen as the site of the formal surrender of the Empire of Japan on the morning of September 1 1945 8 USS Nautilus (SSN-571) [Nautilus class] In 1951 Congress authorized construction of the worlds first nuclear-powered submarine On December 12 of that year the Navy Department announced that she would be the sixth ship of the fleet to bear the name Nautilus She was launched on January 21 1954 Eight months later on September 30 1954 the Nautilus became the first commissioned nuclear-powered ship in the US Navy On the morning of January 17 1955 Nautilus Cmdr Wilkinson signaled Underway on Nuclear Power In 1958 she departed Pearl Harbor under top secret orders to conduct Operation Sunshine the first crossing of the North Pole by a ship THINGS YOU HAVE TO KNOW FIVE OF

1 The Waste Land The five parts of T S Eliots 1922 masterpiece The Waste Land are The Burial of the Dead A Game of Chess The Fire Sermon Death By Water and What the Thunder Said

2 Mitosis The five stages of the biological process of mitosis (the production of new body cells from existing ones) are interphase prophase metaphase anaphase and telophase Interphase is not technically a part of mitosis but it still sometimes finds its way in 3 Nobel Prize Winners The five original winners of Nobel Prizes (1901) were Wilhelm Roumlntgen (physics for the discovery of X rays) Jacobus Henricus van t Hoff (chemistry for laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure) Emil Adolf von Behring (physiology or medicine for his serum therapy remedy for diphtheria) Sully Prudhomme (literature for his idealistic poetry) and Henri Dunant and Freacutedeacuteric Passy (peace for founding the International Red Cross and the first French peace society respectively) 4 The Mighty Handful Five nationalist Russian composers are often referred to as The Mighty Handful or The Five They are Modest Mussorgsky (1839 -1881) Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) Cesar Cui (1835-1918) and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) 5 D-Day The codenames for the five beaches attacked in Operation Overlord on D-Day are Gold Juno Sword Utah and Omaha The first three were attacked by British and Canadian forces while the latter two were assaulted by American troops 6 Orders of Architecture There are five classical orders of architecture a term that primarily refers to the design of the columns used in the building They are the Doric (simple used for the Parthenon) Ionic (fancier fluted with scrolls on their capitals) Corinthian (baroque fluted with acanthus-like leaves for capitals) Tuscan (plain similar to Doric) and Composite (mixture of Ionic and Corinthian) The latter two orders are Roman developments the other three originated with the Greeks 7 Cooperstown The first five members elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame were Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Honus Wagner Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson 8 Spectral Lines Hydrogen produces an infinite series of spectral lines The first five of those series are named after scientists who observed them before it was known that they were actually examples of the same phenomenon From lowest to highest energy of the final level they are known as the Lyman Balmer Paschen Brackett and Pfund series Only the Balmer series exists in the visible spectrum 9 Platonic Solids There are only five regular polyhedra three-dimensional shapes with congruent regular polygons for sides These known as the Platonic solids are the tetrahedron (4 triangular sides) cube (6 square sides) octahedron (8 triangular sides) dodecahedron (12 pentagonal sides) and icosahedron (20 triangular sides) 10 Pillars of Islam Islam has five fundamental tenets of religious life a group known as the Pillars of Islam They are the declaration of faith (Shahadah) prayer (Salat) giving charity to those in need (Zakat) fasting during the month of Ramadan (Sawm) and the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) to be performed once in each adherents lifetime

WORKS OF LITERATURE 1 A tragedy by William Shakespeare probably written between 1599 and 1601 The play

set in Denmark recounts how a Prince exacts revenge on his uncle who has murdered his father the King and then took the throne and married his mother The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness from overwhelming grief to seething rage and explores themes of treachery revenge incest and moral corruption ndash Hamlet

2 Whose book The Bonfire of the Vanities contains 2343 exclamation points ndashTom Wolfersquos 3 A play written by William Shakespeare it is generally accepted to be Shakespeares last play

solely written by him Although listed as a comedy in the first Folio many modern editors have relabeled the play a romance First published in the First Folio of 1623 but generally dated to 1610-11 it did not attract a significant amount of attention before the closing of the theatres in 1642 and after the Restoration it attained great popularity only in adapted versions Theatre productions returned conclusively to the original Shakespearean text in the mid-nineteenth century ndash The Tempest

4 This work of literature is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the Greek language making it the first work of European literature The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence possible multiple authors The poem concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Troy ndash The Iliad

5 This novel written in 1851 by Herman Melville The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab Ishmael soon learns that Ahab does not mean to use the Pequod and her crew to hunt whales for market trade as whaling ships generally do Ahab seeks one specific whale Comparatively few whaling ships know of this whale and fewer yet have knowingly encountered the whale ndash Moby Dick

6 This work of literature is among the best-known of William Shakespeares works and is his shortest tragedy It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels and frequently adapted Often regarded as archetypal the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends For the plot Shakespeare drew loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland by Raphael Holinshed and that by the Scottish philosopher Hector Boece There are many superstitions centered on the belief the play is somehow cursed and many actors will not mention the name of the play aloud referring to it instead as the Scottish play ndash Macbeth

7 A French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire this novella tells the tale of young man who has been indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism but becomes disillusioned after witnessing and experiencing many great hardships With a plot similar to that of a more serious picaresque novel or bildungsroman the novel parodies many adventure and romance clicheacutes and the plights of the characters are described in a tone which is mordantly matter-of-fact Through the allegory of the novel Voltaire pokes fun at religion and theologians governments and armies philosophies and philosophers most visibly Voltaire rails against Leibniz and his optimism ndash Candide

8 In this novel written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1808 the protagonist of a classic German legend makes a pact with the Devil The tale is the basis for many literary artistic cinematic and musical works such as those by Christopher Marlowe Goethe Thomas Mann Hector Berlioz Franz Liszt and Charles Gounod The name Faust has come to stand for a charlatan alchemist (some claim astrologer and necromancer) whose pride and vanity lead to his doom ndash Faust

9 A play by William Shakespeare and written around the year 1603 revolves around four central characters Othello his wife Desdemona his lieutenant Cassio and his trusted advisor Iago Because of its varied themes mdash racism love jealousy and betrayal - the play remains relevant to the present day and is still very popular ndash Othello

10 A romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens Theseus and Hippolyta and with fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest The play is one of Shakespeares most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world ndash A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream

11 First published on 28 January 1813 is the most famous of Jane Austens novels and one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel The book is Jane Austens second published novel Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797 initially called First Impressions but was never published under that title Following revisions it was first published on 28 January 1813 Like both its predecessors Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey it was written in Steventon Hampshire where Austen lived in the rectory ndash Pride and Prejudice

AMERICAN HISTORY 1 Who orbited the earth three times in the Friendship 7 ndashJohn Glenn 2 Born in 1912 this Oklahoma born folk singer is known for such songs as The Land is Your Land and Blowin Down This long Dusty Road ndashWoody Guthrie 3 The Shenandoah Valley is located in which state- Virginia 4 During what year did the American Civil War come to an end -1865 5 What comic strip featured such characters as daisy Mae Fearless Fosdick and Gat Garson ndashLilrsquo Abner 6 What Ivy League school is located in New Haven ndashYale 7 In the world of automobile racing what does NASCAR stand for- National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing 8 Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake are both found in which state ndashNew York 9 Labor leader Cesar Chavez led the boycott of what Californian produce during the 1960s ndash Grapes 10 What killed over 2000 people in Johnstown Pennsylvania in 1889 ndasha flood 11 What Holocaust survivor and American author was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 ndash Elie Wiesel 12 What novel exploring the conflicts of mixed race man in America did James Weldon Johnson publish in 1912- The autobiography of an Ex-colored man 13 What acclaimed novelist was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil war and World War Two ndash Ernest Hemingway 14 What explorer sailing for the Netherlands explored the Hudson River in 1609 ndashHenry Hudson 15 Jonas Salk is best known for developing a vaccine against what disease ndashPolio 16 What is the highest mountain found in the United States ndashMt McKinley 17 What popular American song is sung to the tune of the old British drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven ndashThe Star Spangled Banner 18 After converting to Christainity who changed her name to Rebecca and traveled to Britain to meet the King of England ndashPocahontas 19 Who won a Grammy Award for the song From a Distance ndashBette Midler 20 voters in what southern state adopted a new flag in 2003 ndashGeorgia 21 What generalrsquos farewell speech included the now famous line ldquoold soldiers never die they just fade awayrdquo- General Douglas MacArthur 22 ldquoOperation Overlordrdquo was the code name for the invasion of what country ndashFrance 23 During three days of rioting in New York city in 1863 over 1000 people were killed What prompted the riots ndashdraft of union forces in the civil war 24 Who was the president of the confederate states of America during the civil war ndashJefferson Davis 25 What company was founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak in 1976 ndashapple computers 26 What John Steinbeck novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 ndashGrapes of Wrath 27 Who is best known for his painting American gothic ndashGrant Wood 28 What legendary back robber did the ldquolady in redrdquo betray to federal agents ndashJohn Dillinger 29 Who commanded the American forces in Vietnam until 1968 ndashGeneral William Westmoreland

30 Blondie and Dagwood have appeared in newspapers for over half a century Name their two children ndashalexander and cookie 31 Who won the battle of pea ridge ndashthe union 32 What was the first American city to host the summer Olympics ndashst louis (1904) 33 Lopez Orcas and Waldron all belong to what group of islands ndashSan Juan 34 Completed in 1825 what was nicknamed the ldquoBig Ditchrdquo ndashThe Erie Canal 35 What band leader was known as the ldquoMarch Kingrdquo ndashJohn Phillip Sousa 36 Where did the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific meet in 1869 creating the nationrsquos first transcontinental railroad ndashPromontory Utah 37 What feat did Captain Chuck Yeager accomplish in 1947 in the Bell X-1 ndashhe broke the speed of sound 38 Who was the first secretary of the treasury in the United States ndashAlexander Hamilton 39 What film is based on the lives of socialites claus and Sunny von Bulow ndashReversal of Fortune 40 Who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling ndashMajorie Kinnan Rawlings 41 What associated press correspondent was freed in 1991 after spending 2455 days in captivity ndashTerry Anderson 42 In 1913 the 16th amendment of the constitution was passed allowing the federal government to do what ndash tax personal income Countries and Their Capitals

Russia Moscow

Andorra Andorra LaVella

Austria Vienna

Belgium Brussels

Denmark Copenhagen

Finland Helsinki

France Paris

Germany Berlin

Greece Athens

Holy See (Vatican City)

Vatican City

Iceland Reykjavik

Ireland Dublin

Italy Rome

Liechtenstein

Vaduz

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Malta Valletta

Monaco Monaco

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Norway Oslo

Portugal Lisbon

San Marino San Marino

Spain Madrid

Sweden Stockholm

Switzerland Bern

United Kingdom

London

Albania Tirana

Armenia Yerevan

Azerbaijan Baku

Belarus Minsk

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Bulgaria Sofia

Croatia Zagreb

Czech Republic

Prague

Estonia Tallinn

Georgia Tbilisi

Hungary Budapest

Latvia Riga

Lithuania Vilnius

Macedonia Skopje

Moldova Chisinau

Poland Warsaw

Romania Bucharest

Serbia and Montenegro

Belgrade

Slovakia Bratislave

Slovenia Ljubjana

Ukraine Kiev

Cyprus Nicosia

Turkey Ankara

Scotland Edinburgh

Wales Cardiff

Northern Ireland

Belfast

States and Their Capitals

Alabama - Montgomery

Alaska - Juneau

Arizona - Phoenix

Arkansas - Little Rock

California - Sacramento

Colorado - Denver

Connecticut - Hartford

Delaware - Dover

Florida - Tallahassee

Georgia - Atlanta

Hawaii - Honolulu

Idaho - Boise

Illinois - Springfield

Indiana - Indianapolis

Iowa - Des Moines

Kansas - Topeka

Kentucky - Frankfort

Louisiana - Baton Rouge

Maine - Augusta

Maryland - Annapolis

Massachusetts - Boston

Michigan - Lansing

Minnesota - St Paul

Mississippi - Jackson

Missouri - Jefferson City

Montana - Helena

Nebraska - Lincoln

Nevada - Carson City

New Hampshire - Concord

New Jersey - Trenton

New Mexico - Santa Fe

New York - Albany

North Carolina - Raleigh

North Dakota - Bismarck

Ohio - Columbus

Oklahoma - Oklahoma City

Oregon - Salem

Pennsylvania - Harrisburg

Rhode Island - Providence

South Carolina - Columbia

South Dakota - Pierre

Tennessee - Nashville

Texas - Austin

Utah - Salt Lake City

Vermont - Montpelier

Virginia - Richmond

Washington - Olympia

West Virginia ndash Charleston

Wisconsin - Madison

Wyoming ndash Cheyenne

RANDOM KNOWLEDGE 1 Where are the Transvall and Orange Free State provinces ndashSouth Africa 2 What war did the Potsdam Conference follow ndashWorld War II 3 During his presidency the White House bought 12 tons of jelly beans from the Goelitz Candy

Company between January 1981 and September 1988 ndashRonald Reagan 4 What was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans ndashGeorge Elliot 5 He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Lepanto an injury of which he was very proud He had a

rivalry with his contemporary Lope de Vegas whom he regarded as an inferior writer Name this author who was in prison at Argamasilla in La Mancha when he created character such as Dulcinea Sancho Panza and don Quixote ndashMiguel De Cervantes

6 This nationrsquos flag like that of the US features seven horizontal alternating red and white stripes In the upper-left corner however where the US flag has stars this countryrsquos flag has a yellow cresecent moon and smaller sun on a blue field It shares borders with Thailand Indonesia and Brunei What is this Southeast Asian nation with capital at Kuala Lumpur ndashMalaysia

7 Their name comes from the Greek word for salt producer and these elements react with metals to form ionic halide salts They are all reactive with the reactivity decreasing down the group As typical non metals they have high electronegativities and ionization energies and form compounds by gaining an electron to complete a stable configuration What is this group of elements also known as group 17 which includes fluorine bromine and iodine ndashHalogens

8 To qualify for it one had to be male a US citizen (or at least have filed for citizenship) and either be the head of a family or over 21 years old It granted 160 acres of public land free of charge of settlers who agreed to stay at least five years and to cultivate their parcel What was this 1862 act which promoted the agricultural development of the west ndashHomestead Act

9 Alexander the Great sought out this wise man and upon finding him lying in a tub offered to give him whatever he wanted He wise man replied ldquoI want you to get out of my sunrdquo He earned the nickname ldquocyonrdquo meaning dog for his habit of wandering around naked and sleeping in dog houses Who was this Greek philosopher founder of the cynics who was said to search the earth with his lamp looking for an honest man-Diogenes

10 He was born in Bohemia and trained at the Vienna Conservatory eventually becoming conductor of the Prague Opera His second symphony was called the ldquoRessurectionrdquo while his first was known as the ldquoTitanrdquo In a sad irony one of his own children died soon after he completed his song cycle ldquoSongs on the Death of Childrenrdquo Name this composer whose ldquoSymphony of a Thousandrdquo doesnrsquot take quite that many musicians ndashGustav Mahler

11 The single name which designates each of these rulers is the Arabic word for tiger One invaded India and won a decisive victory at Paniput in 1526 The other constantly fights against his rival King Rataxas who happens to be a whino One was the founder of the Moghol Empire the other is King of the Elephants Give the common name ndashBabar

12 It is the second-most common neurological disorder trailing only strokes and affecting one percent of the population Attacks are intiated by abnormal synchronous electrical discharges from millions of neurons in the brain contracting skeletal muscles involuntarily In many cases the reticular activation system is depressed so the victim loses consciousness What is this disorder whose seizures are classified as grand mal or petit mal ndashEpilepsy

13 In the background are three arches which impose formal composition to the scene On the right are two women in draped gown resting their foreheads together sadly Just to the left of them a women hugs two small children In the center of the scene stands a man holding three swords and exhorting the three figures who face him their arms straight forward in a Roman salute This describes what 1785 painting by Jacques-Louis David (dah-veed) ndashThe Oath of Horatii

14 A poor Presbyterian minister from Leeds England he met Benjamin Franklin in 1767 and became interested in electricity and chemistry He began studying the vats of a nearby brewery fascinated by the different prosperities of the gases emitted by them One gas he noticed extinguished the burning chips of wood he had placed over it In 1774 he isolated the gas which he called ldquodephlogisticated airrdquo Name this British scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen ndashJoseph Priestly

15 It takes place on June 27th of an unnamed year The master of ceremonies is Mr Summers who is assisted by the postmaster Mr Graves Old Man Warner complains that the procedure is no longer carried out as formally as when he was a boy Only heads of families draw and when itrsquos done Bill Hutchinson finds himself holding the slip of paper with the black dot on it This is a brief description of what classic short story by Shirley Jackson ndashThe lottery

16 He was the only completely clean-shaven president to serve between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson He was also last president who was a Civil War veteran having served on the staff of a colonel named Rutherford B Hayes Governor of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 his campaign was directed by the king maker Mark Hanna Name this president assassinated in 1901 ndashWilliam McKinley

17 Evaluate the integral from negative 2 to 2 of sin3x with respect to x -0 18 Fly-by missions of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1980 and 1981 gave scientists more information about

this planet than had been accumulated since Galileo first viewed it telescopically in 1610 The missions discovered that the planetrsquos atmosphere is dynamic with wind storms gusting over 1500 kilometers per hour

Bonus Round 1 ANSWERS Letter Category ndash brought to you by the letter ldquoJrdquo 1 From 213 to 144 million years ago it was the second period of the Mesozoic era Answer Jurassic period 2 This is the SI unit of mechanical work Answer Joule 3 This American official was a co-author of the Federalist Papers Answer John Jay (accept J)

4 The seat of Duval County it is the largest city in the state of Florida Answer Jacksonville 5 A wicker basket is attached to the playerrsquos arm to hurl the small rubber ball in this popular Spanish sport similar to handball Answer Jai Alai (pron hindashlie) 6 This 20th century American artist was one of the leading proponents of pop art Answer Jasper Johns 7 The most well known novel of this 20th century Irish writer is Ulysses Answer James Joyce 8 This May 1916 battle was the only major sea battle between the British and Germans during World War 1 Answer Battle of Jutland 9 The pants tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle where they end in a snug cuff and are worn primarily for horseback riding Answer jodhpurs

10 One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity this emperorrsquos rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire and is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii or restoration of the empirerdquo Answer Justinian Bonus Round 2 This Letter Category brought to you by the letter ldquoGrdquo - KEY 1 This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue Answer George Gershwin 2 The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel Answer The Grapes of Wrath

3 650 miles off the Pacific coast these islands are owned by Ecuador Answer Galapagos Islands 4 Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s this was the public policy of Soviet openness Answer Glasnost 5 This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants Answer Gary 6 This man was the 18th President of the United States Answer Ulysses S Grant

7 Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US Answer Glaucoma 8 This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his ldquoback to Africardquo movement Answer Marcus Garvey 9 What is the official processed food of Georgia Answer Grits

10 What is the name of the famous search engine which changes with important dates throughout the year Answer Google Round 1 Toss-Up Questions

1 2 Charlotte Jacksonville Birmingham ndash place these southern cities in order from largest to smallest a Answer Jacksonville Charlotte Birmingham (213)

2 Written after its authors baptism in the Church of England the third section of this cycle of poems takes its name from a group of rocks off the English coast ldquoThe Dry Salvagesrdquo It also includes the sections ldquoBurnt Nortonrdquo ldquoEast Cokerrdquo and ldquoLittle Giddingrdquo For 10 points name this musically titled cycle of poems by T S Eliot ANSWER Four Quartets

3 John Kerry Shannon OBrien Mitt Romney ndash Which of these people was recently elected governor of Massachusetts Answer Mitt Romney (3)

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

7 USS Missouri (BB-63) [Iowa class] The fourth USS Missouri was the last battleship completed by the United States she was laid down January 6 1941 by New York Naval Shipyard The Missouri was launched January 29 1944 and received her sponsorship from Miss Margaret Truman daughter of then Missouri Senator Harry S Truman Commissioned on June 11 1944 the Mighty Mo as she became known sailed for the Pacific and quickly became the flagship of Admiral Halsey which is why she was chosen as the site of the formal surrender of the Empire of Japan on the morning of September 1 1945 8 USS Nautilus (SSN-571) [Nautilus class] In 1951 Congress authorized construction of the worlds first nuclear-powered submarine On December 12 of that year the Navy Department announced that she would be the sixth ship of the fleet to bear the name Nautilus She was launched on January 21 1954 Eight months later on September 30 1954 the Nautilus became the first commissioned nuclear-powered ship in the US Navy On the morning of January 17 1955 Nautilus Cmdr Wilkinson signaled Underway on Nuclear Power In 1958 she departed Pearl Harbor under top secret orders to conduct Operation Sunshine the first crossing of the North Pole by a ship THINGS YOU HAVE TO KNOW FIVE OF

1 The Waste Land The five parts of T S Eliots 1922 masterpiece The Waste Land are The Burial of the Dead A Game of Chess The Fire Sermon Death By Water and What the Thunder Said

2 Mitosis The five stages of the biological process of mitosis (the production of new body cells from existing ones) are interphase prophase metaphase anaphase and telophase Interphase is not technically a part of mitosis but it still sometimes finds its way in 3 Nobel Prize Winners The five original winners of Nobel Prizes (1901) were Wilhelm Roumlntgen (physics for the discovery of X rays) Jacobus Henricus van t Hoff (chemistry for laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure) Emil Adolf von Behring (physiology or medicine for his serum therapy remedy for diphtheria) Sully Prudhomme (literature for his idealistic poetry) and Henri Dunant and Freacutedeacuteric Passy (peace for founding the International Red Cross and the first French peace society respectively) 4 The Mighty Handful Five nationalist Russian composers are often referred to as The Mighty Handful or The Five They are Modest Mussorgsky (1839 -1881) Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) Cesar Cui (1835-1918) and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) 5 D-Day The codenames for the five beaches attacked in Operation Overlord on D-Day are Gold Juno Sword Utah and Omaha The first three were attacked by British and Canadian forces while the latter two were assaulted by American troops 6 Orders of Architecture There are five classical orders of architecture a term that primarily refers to the design of the columns used in the building They are the Doric (simple used for the Parthenon) Ionic (fancier fluted with scrolls on their capitals) Corinthian (baroque fluted with acanthus-like leaves for capitals) Tuscan (plain similar to Doric) and Composite (mixture of Ionic and Corinthian) The latter two orders are Roman developments the other three originated with the Greeks 7 Cooperstown The first five members elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame were Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Honus Wagner Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson 8 Spectral Lines Hydrogen produces an infinite series of spectral lines The first five of those series are named after scientists who observed them before it was known that they were actually examples of the same phenomenon From lowest to highest energy of the final level they are known as the Lyman Balmer Paschen Brackett and Pfund series Only the Balmer series exists in the visible spectrum 9 Platonic Solids There are only five regular polyhedra three-dimensional shapes with congruent regular polygons for sides These known as the Platonic solids are the tetrahedron (4 triangular sides) cube (6 square sides) octahedron (8 triangular sides) dodecahedron (12 pentagonal sides) and icosahedron (20 triangular sides) 10 Pillars of Islam Islam has five fundamental tenets of religious life a group known as the Pillars of Islam They are the declaration of faith (Shahadah) prayer (Salat) giving charity to those in need (Zakat) fasting during the month of Ramadan (Sawm) and the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) to be performed once in each adherents lifetime

WORKS OF LITERATURE 1 A tragedy by William Shakespeare probably written between 1599 and 1601 The play

set in Denmark recounts how a Prince exacts revenge on his uncle who has murdered his father the King and then took the throne and married his mother The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness from overwhelming grief to seething rage and explores themes of treachery revenge incest and moral corruption ndash Hamlet

2 Whose book The Bonfire of the Vanities contains 2343 exclamation points ndashTom Wolfersquos 3 A play written by William Shakespeare it is generally accepted to be Shakespeares last play

solely written by him Although listed as a comedy in the first Folio many modern editors have relabeled the play a romance First published in the First Folio of 1623 but generally dated to 1610-11 it did not attract a significant amount of attention before the closing of the theatres in 1642 and after the Restoration it attained great popularity only in adapted versions Theatre productions returned conclusively to the original Shakespearean text in the mid-nineteenth century ndash The Tempest

4 This work of literature is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the Greek language making it the first work of European literature The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence possible multiple authors The poem concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Troy ndash The Iliad

5 This novel written in 1851 by Herman Melville The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab Ishmael soon learns that Ahab does not mean to use the Pequod and her crew to hunt whales for market trade as whaling ships generally do Ahab seeks one specific whale Comparatively few whaling ships know of this whale and fewer yet have knowingly encountered the whale ndash Moby Dick

6 This work of literature is among the best-known of William Shakespeares works and is his shortest tragedy It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels and frequently adapted Often regarded as archetypal the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends For the plot Shakespeare drew loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland by Raphael Holinshed and that by the Scottish philosopher Hector Boece There are many superstitions centered on the belief the play is somehow cursed and many actors will not mention the name of the play aloud referring to it instead as the Scottish play ndash Macbeth

7 A French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire this novella tells the tale of young man who has been indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism but becomes disillusioned after witnessing and experiencing many great hardships With a plot similar to that of a more serious picaresque novel or bildungsroman the novel parodies many adventure and romance clicheacutes and the plights of the characters are described in a tone which is mordantly matter-of-fact Through the allegory of the novel Voltaire pokes fun at religion and theologians governments and armies philosophies and philosophers most visibly Voltaire rails against Leibniz and his optimism ndash Candide

8 In this novel written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1808 the protagonist of a classic German legend makes a pact with the Devil The tale is the basis for many literary artistic cinematic and musical works such as those by Christopher Marlowe Goethe Thomas Mann Hector Berlioz Franz Liszt and Charles Gounod The name Faust has come to stand for a charlatan alchemist (some claim astrologer and necromancer) whose pride and vanity lead to his doom ndash Faust

9 A play by William Shakespeare and written around the year 1603 revolves around four central characters Othello his wife Desdemona his lieutenant Cassio and his trusted advisor Iago Because of its varied themes mdash racism love jealousy and betrayal - the play remains relevant to the present day and is still very popular ndash Othello

10 A romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens Theseus and Hippolyta and with fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest The play is one of Shakespeares most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world ndash A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream

11 First published on 28 January 1813 is the most famous of Jane Austens novels and one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel The book is Jane Austens second published novel Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797 initially called First Impressions but was never published under that title Following revisions it was first published on 28 January 1813 Like both its predecessors Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey it was written in Steventon Hampshire where Austen lived in the rectory ndash Pride and Prejudice

AMERICAN HISTORY 1 Who orbited the earth three times in the Friendship 7 ndashJohn Glenn 2 Born in 1912 this Oklahoma born folk singer is known for such songs as The Land is Your Land and Blowin Down This long Dusty Road ndashWoody Guthrie 3 The Shenandoah Valley is located in which state- Virginia 4 During what year did the American Civil War come to an end -1865 5 What comic strip featured such characters as daisy Mae Fearless Fosdick and Gat Garson ndashLilrsquo Abner 6 What Ivy League school is located in New Haven ndashYale 7 In the world of automobile racing what does NASCAR stand for- National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing 8 Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake are both found in which state ndashNew York 9 Labor leader Cesar Chavez led the boycott of what Californian produce during the 1960s ndash Grapes 10 What killed over 2000 people in Johnstown Pennsylvania in 1889 ndasha flood 11 What Holocaust survivor and American author was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 ndash Elie Wiesel 12 What novel exploring the conflicts of mixed race man in America did James Weldon Johnson publish in 1912- The autobiography of an Ex-colored man 13 What acclaimed novelist was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil war and World War Two ndash Ernest Hemingway 14 What explorer sailing for the Netherlands explored the Hudson River in 1609 ndashHenry Hudson 15 Jonas Salk is best known for developing a vaccine against what disease ndashPolio 16 What is the highest mountain found in the United States ndashMt McKinley 17 What popular American song is sung to the tune of the old British drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven ndashThe Star Spangled Banner 18 After converting to Christainity who changed her name to Rebecca and traveled to Britain to meet the King of England ndashPocahontas 19 Who won a Grammy Award for the song From a Distance ndashBette Midler 20 voters in what southern state adopted a new flag in 2003 ndashGeorgia 21 What generalrsquos farewell speech included the now famous line ldquoold soldiers never die they just fade awayrdquo- General Douglas MacArthur 22 ldquoOperation Overlordrdquo was the code name for the invasion of what country ndashFrance 23 During three days of rioting in New York city in 1863 over 1000 people were killed What prompted the riots ndashdraft of union forces in the civil war 24 Who was the president of the confederate states of America during the civil war ndashJefferson Davis 25 What company was founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak in 1976 ndashapple computers 26 What John Steinbeck novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 ndashGrapes of Wrath 27 Who is best known for his painting American gothic ndashGrant Wood 28 What legendary back robber did the ldquolady in redrdquo betray to federal agents ndashJohn Dillinger 29 Who commanded the American forces in Vietnam until 1968 ndashGeneral William Westmoreland

30 Blondie and Dagwood have appeared in newspapers for over half a century Name their two children ndashalexander and cookie 31 Who won the battle of pea ridge ndashthe union 32 What was the first American city to host the summer Olympics ndashst louis (1904) 33 Lopez Orcas and Waldron all belong to what group of islands ndashSan Juan 34 Completed in 1825 what was nicknamed the ldquoBig Ditchrdquo ndashThe Erie Canal 35 What band leader was known as the ldquoMarch Kingrdquo ndashJohn Phillip Sousa 36 Where did the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific meet in 1869 creating the nationrsquos first transcontinental railroad ndashPromontory Utah 37 What feat did Captain Chuck Yeager accomplish in 1947 in the Bell X-1 ndashhe broke the speed of sound 38 Who was the first secretary of the treasury in the United States ndashAlexander Hamilton 39 What film is based on the lives of socialites claus and Sunny von Bulow ndashReversal of Fortune 40 Who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling ndashMajorie Kinnan Rawlings 41 What associated press correspondent was freed in 1991 after spending 2455 days in captivity ndashTerry Anderson 42 In 1913 the 16th amendment of the constitution was passed allowing the federal government to do what ndash tax personal income Countries and Their Capitals

Russia Moscow

Andorra Andorra LaVella

Austria Vienna

Belgium Brussels

Denmark Copenhagen

Finland Helsinki

France Paris

Germany Berlin

Greece Athens

Holy See (Vatican City)

Vatican City

Iceland Reykjavik

Ireland Dublin

Italy Rome

Liechtenstein

Vaduz

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Malta Valletta

Monaco Monaco

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Norway Oslo

Portugal Lisbon

San Marino San Marino

Spain Madrid

Sweden Stockholm

Switzerland Bern

United Kingdom

London

Albania Tirana

Armenia Yerevan

Azerbaijan Baku

Belarus Minsk

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Bulgaria Sofia

Croatia Zagreb

Czech Republic

Prague

Estonia Tallinn

Georgia Tbilisi

Hungary Budapest

Latvia Riga

Lithuania Vilnius

Macedonia Skopje

Moldova Chisinau

Poland Warsaw

Romania Bucharest

Serbia and Montenegro

Belgrade

Slovakia Bratislave

Slovenia Ljubjana

Ukraine Kiev

Cyprus Nicosia

Turkey Ankara

Scotland Edinburgh

Wales Cardiff

Northern Ireland

Belfast

States and Their Capitals

Alabama - Montgomery

Alaska - Juneau

Arizona - Phoenix

Arkansas - Little Rock

California - Sacramento

Colorado - Denver

Connecticut - Hartford

Delaware - Dover

Florida - Tallahassee

Georgia - Atlanta

Hawaii - Honolulu

Idaho - Boise

Illinois - Springfield

Indiana - Indianapolis

Iowa - Des Moines

Kansas - Topeka

Kentucky - Frankfort

Louisiana - Baton Rouge

Maine - Augusta

Maryland - Annapolis

Massachusetts - Boston

Michigan - Lansing

Minnesota - St Paul

Mississippi - Jackson

Missouri - Jefferson City

Montana - Helena

Nebraska - Lincoln

Nevada - Carson City

New Hampshire - Concord

New Jersey - Trenton

New Mexico - Santa Fe

New York - Albany

North Carolina - Raleigh

North Dakota - Bismarck

Ohio - Columbus

Oklahoma - Oklahoma City

Oregon - Salem

Pennsylvania - Harrisburg

Rhode Island - Providence

South Carolina - Columbia

South Dakota - Pierre

Tennessee - Nashville

Texas - Austin

Utah - Salt Lake City

Vermont - Montpelier

Virginia - Richmond

Washington - Olympia

West Virginia ndash Charleston

Wisconsin - Madison

Wyoming ndash Cheyenne

RANDOM KNOWLEDGE 1 Where are the Transvall and Orange Free State provinces ndashSouth Africa 2 What war did the Potsdam Conference follow ndashWorld War II 3 During his presidency the White House bought 12 tons of jelly beans from the Goelitz Candy

Company between January 1981 and September 1988 ndashRonald Reagan 4 What was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans ndashGeorge Elliot 5 He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Lepanto an injury of which he was very proud He had a

rivalry with his contemporary Lope de Vegas whom he regarded as an inferior writer Name this author who was in prison at Argamasilla in La Mancha when he created character such as Dulcinea Sancho Panza and don Quixote ndashMiguel De Cervantes

6 This nationrsquos flag like that of the US features seven horizontal alternating red and white stripes In the upper-left corner however where the US flag has stars this countryrsquos flag has a yellow cresecent moon and smaller sun on a blue field It shares borders with Thailand Indonesia and Brunei What is this Southeast Asian nation with capital at Kuala Lumpur ndashMalaysia

7 Their name comes from the Greek word for salt producer and these elements react with metals to form ionic halide salts They are all reactive with the reactivity decreasing down the group As typical non metals they have high electronegativities and ionization energies and form compounds by gaining an electron to complete a stable configuration What is this group of elements also known as group 17 which includes fluorine bromine and iodine ndashHalogens

8 To qualify for it one had to be male a US citizen (or at least have filed for citizenship) and either be the head of a family or over 21 years old It granted 160 acres of public land free of charge of settlers who agreed to stay at least five years and to cultivate their parcel What was this 1862 act which promoted the agricultural development of the west ndashHomestead Act

9 Alexander the Great sought out this wise man and upon finding him lying in a tub offered to give him whatever he wanted He wise man replied ldquoI want you to get out of my sunrdquo He earned the nickname ldquocyonrdquo meaning dog for his habit of wandering around naked and sleeping in dog houses Who was this Greek philosopher founder of the cynics who was said to search the earth with his lamp looking for an honest man-Diogenes

10 He was born in Bohemia and trained at the Vienna Conservatory eventually becoming conductor of the Prague Opera His second symphony was called the ldquoRessurectionrdquo while his first was known as the ldquoTitanrdquo In a sad irony one of his own children died soon after he completed his song cycle ldquoSongs on the Death of Childrenrdquo Name this composer whose ldquoSymphony of a Thousandrdquo doesnrsquot take quite that many musicians ndashGustav Mahler

11 The single name which designates each of these rulers is the Arabic word for tiger One invaded India and won a decisive victory at Paniput in 1526 The other constantly fights against his rival King Rataxas who happens to be a whino One was the founder of the Moghol Empire the other is King of the Elephants Give the common name ndashBabar

12 It is the second-most common neurological disorder trailing only strokes and affecting one percent of the population Attacks are intiated by abnormal synchronous electrical discharges from millions of neurons in the brain contracting skeletal muscles involuntarily In many cases the reticular activation system is depressed so the victim loses consciousness What is this disorder whose seizures are classified as grand mal or petit mal ndashEpilepsy

13 In the background are three arches which impose formal composition to the scene On the right are two women in draped gown resting their foreheads together sadly Just to the left of them a women hugs two small children In the center of the scene stands a man holding three swords and exhorting the three figures who face him their arms straight forward in a Roman salute This describes what 1785 painting by Jacques-Louis David (dah-veed) ndashThe Oath of Horatii

14 A poor Presbyterian minister from Leeds England he met Benjamin Franklin in 1767 and became interested in electricity and chemistry He began studying the vats of a nearby brewery fascinated by the different prosperities of the gases emitted by them One gas he noticed extinguished the burning chips of wood he had placed over it In 1774 he isolated the gas which he called ldquodephlogisticated airrdquo Name this British scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen ndashJoseph Priestly

15 It takes place on June 27th of an unnamed year The master of ceremonies is Mr Summers who is assisted by the postmaster Mr Graves Old Man Warner complains that the procedure is no longer carried out as formally as when he was a boy Only heads of families draw and when itrsquos done Bill Hutchinson finds himself holding the slip of paper with the black dot on it This is a brief description of what classic short story by Shirley Jackson ndashThe lottery

16 He was the only completely clean-shaven president to serve between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson He was also last president who was a Civil War veteran having served on the staff of a colonel named Rutherford B Hayes Governor of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 his campaign was directed by the king maker Mark Hanna Name this president assassinated in 1901 ndashWilliam McKinley

17 Evaluate the integral from negative 2 to 2 of sin3x with respect to x -0 18 Fly-by missions of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1980 and 1981 gave scientists more information about

this planet than had been accumulated since Galileo first viewed it telescopically in 1610 The missions discovered that the planetrsquos atmosphere is dynamic with wind storms gusting over 1500 kilometers per hour

Bonus Round 1 ANSWERS Letter Category ndash brought to you by the letter ldquoJrdquo 1 From 213 to 144 million years ago it was the second period of the Mesozoic era Answer Jurassic period 2 This is the SI unit of mechanical work Answer Joule 3 This American official was a co-author of the Federalist Papers Answer John Jay (accept J)

4 The seat of Duval County it is the largest city in the state of Florida Answer Jacksonville 5 A wicker basket is attached to the playerrsquos arm to hurl the small rubber ball in this popular Spanish sport similar to handball Answer Jai Alai (pron hindashlie) 6 This 20th century American artist was one of the leading proponents of pop art Answer Jasper Johns 7 The most well known novel of this 20th century Irish writer is Ulysses Answer James Joyce 8 This May 1916 battle was the only major sea battle between the British and Germans during World War 1 Answer Battle of Jutland 9 The pants tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle where they end in a snug cuff and are worn primarily for horseback riding Answer jodhpurs

10 One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity this emperorrsquos rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire and is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii or restoration of the empirerdquo Answer Justinian Bonus Round 2 This Letter Category brought to you by the letter ldquoGrdquo - KEY 1 This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue Answer George Gershwin 2 The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel Answer The Grapes of Wrath

3 650 miles off the Pacific coast these islands are owned by Ecuador Answer Galapagos Islands 4 Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s this was the public policy of Soviet openness Answer Glasnost 5 This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants Answer Gary 6 This man was the 18th President of the United States Answer Ulysses S Grant

7 Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US Answer Glaucoma 8 This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his ldquoback to Africardquo movement Answer Marcus Garvey 9 What is the official processed food of Georgia Answer Grits

10 What is the name of the famous search engine which changes with important dates throughout the year Answer Google Round 1 Toss-Up Questions

1 2 Charlotte Jacksonville Birmingham ndash place these southern cities in order from largest to smallest a Answer Jacksonville Charlotte Birmingham (213)

2 Written after its authors baptism in the Church of England the third section of this cycle of poems takes its name from a group of rocks off the English coast ldquoThe Dry Salvagesrdquo It also includes the sections ldquoBurnt Nortonrdquo ldquoEast Cokerrdquo and ldquoLittle Giddingrdquo For 10 points name this musically titled cycle of poems by T S Eliot ANSWER Four Quartets

3 John Kerry Shannon OBrien Mitt Romney ndash Which of these people was recently elected governor of Massachusetts Answer Mitt Romney (3)

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

WORKS OF LITERATURE 1 A tragedy by William Shakespeare probably written between 1599 and 1601 The play

set in Denmark recounts how a Prince exacts revenge on his uncle who has murdered his father the King and then took the throne and married his mother The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness from overwhelming grief to seething rage and explores themes of treachery revenge incest and moral corruption ndash Hamlet

2 Whose book The Bonfire of the Vanities contains 2343 exclamation points ndashTom Wolfersquos 3 A play written by William Shakespeare it is generally accepted to be Shakespeares last play

solely written by him Although listed as a comedy in the first Folio many modern editors have relabeled the play a romance First published in the First Folio of 1623 but generally dated to 1610-11 it did not attract a significant amount of attention before the closing of the theatres in 1642 and after the Restoration it attained great popularity only in adapted versions Theatre productions returned conclusively to the original Shakespearean text in the mid-nineteenth century ndash The Tempest

4 This work of literature is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the Greek language making it the first work of European literature The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence possible multiple authors The poem concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Troy ndash The Iliad

5 This novel written in 1851 by Herman Melville The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab Ishmael soon learns that Ahab does not mean to use the Pequod and her crew to hunt whales for market trade as whaling ships generally do Ahab seeks one specific whale Comparatively few whaling ships know of this whale and fewer yet have knowingly encountered the whale ndash Moby Dick

6 This work of literature is among the best-known of William Shakespeares works and is his shortest tragedy It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels and frequently adapted Often regarded as archetypal the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends For the plot Shakespeare drew loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland by Raphael Holinshed and that by the Scottish philosopher Hector Boece There are many superstitions centered on the belief the play is somehow cursed and many actors will not mention the name of the play aloud referring to it instead as the Scottish play ndash Macbeth

7 A French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire this novella tells the tale of young man who has been indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism but becomes disillusioned after witnessing and experiencing many great hardships With a plot similar to that of a more serious picaresque novel or bildungsroman the novel parodies many adventure and romance clicheacutes and the plights of the characters are described in a tone which is mordantly matter-of-fact Through the allegory of the novel Voltaire pokes fun at religion and theologians governments and armies philosophies and philosophers most visibly Voltaire rails against Leibniz and his optimism ndash Candide

8 In this novel written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1808 the protagonist of a classic German legend makes a pact with the Devil The tale is the basis for many literary artistic cinematic and musical works such as those by Christopher Marlowe Goethe Thomas Mann Hector Berlioz Franz Liszt and Charles Gounod The name Faust has come to stand for a charlatan alchemist (some claim astrologer and necromancer) whose pride and vanity lead to his doom ndash Faust

9 A play by William Shakespeare and written around the year 1603 revolves around four central characters Othello his wife Desdemona his lieutenant Cassio and his trusted advisor Iago Because of its varied themes mdash racism love jealousy and betrayal - the play remains relevant to the present day and is still very popular ndash Othello

10 A romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens Theseus and Hippolyta and with fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest The play is one of Shakespeares most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world ndash A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream

11 First published on 28 January 1813 is the most famous of Jane Austens novels and one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel The book is Jane Austens second published novel Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797 initially called First Impressions but was never published under that title Following revisions it was first published on 28 January 1813 Like both its predecessors Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey it was written in Steventon Hampshire where Austen lived in the rectory ndash Pride and Prejudice

AMERICAN HISTORY 1 Who orbited the earth three times in the Friendship 7 ndashJohn Glenn 2 Born in 1912 this Oklahoma born folk singer is known for such songs as The Land is Your Land and Blowin Down This long Dusty Road ndashWoody Guthrie 3 The Shenandoah Valley is located in which state- Virginia 4 During what year did the American Civil War come to an end -1865 5 What comic strip featured such characters as daisy Mae Fearless Fosdick and Gat Garson ndashLilrsquo Abner 6 What Ivy League school is located in New Haven ndashYale 7 In the world of automobile racing what does NASCAR stand for- National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing 8 Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake are both found in which state ndashNew York 9 Labor leader Cesar Chavez led the boycott of what Californian produce during the 1960s ndash Grapes 10 What killed over 2000 people in Johnstown Pennsylvania in 1889 ndasha flood 11 What Holocaust survivor and American author was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 ndash Elie Wiesel 12 What novel exploring the conflicts of mixed race man in America did James Weldon Johnson publish in 1912- The autobiography of an Ex-colored man 13 What acclaimed novelist was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil war and World War Two ndash Ernest Hemingway 14 What explorer sailing for the Netherlands explored the Hudson River in 1609 ndashHenry Hudson 15 Jonas Salk is best known for developing a vaccine against what disease ndashPolio 16 What is the highest mountain found in the United States ndashMt McKinley 17 What popular American song is sung to the tune of the old British drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven ndashThe Star Spangled Banner 18 After converting to Christainity who changed her name to Rebecca and traveled to Britain to meet the King of England ndashPocahontas 19 Who won a Grammy Award for the song From a Distance ndashBette Midler 20 voters in what southern state adopted a new flag in 2003 ndashGeorgia 21 What generalrsquos farewell speech included the now famous line ldquoold soldiers never die they just fade awayrdquo- General Douglas MacArthur 22 ldquoOperation Overlordrdquo was the code name for the invasion of what country ndashFrance 23 During three days of rioting in New York city in 1863 over 1000 people were killed What prompted the riots ndashdraft of union forces in the civil war 24 Who was the president of the confederate states of America during the civil war ndashJefferson Davis 25 What company was founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak in 1976 ndashapple computers 26 What John Steinbeck novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 ndashGrapes of Wrath 27 Who is best known for his painting American gothic ndashGrant Wood 28 What legendary back robber did the ldquolady in redrdquo betray to federal agents ndashJohn Dillinger 29 Who commanded the American forces in Vietnam until 1968 ndashGeneral William Westmoreland

30 Blondie and Dagwood have appeared in newspapers for over half a century Name their two children ndashalexander and cookie 31 Who won the battle of pea ridge ndashthe union 32 What was the first American city to host the summer Olympics ndashst louis (1904) 33 Lopez Orcas and Waldron all belong to what group of islands ndashSan Juan 34 Completed in 1825 what was nicknamed the ldquoBig Ditchrdquo ndashThe Erie Canal 35 What band leader was known as the ldquoMarch Kingrdquo ndashJohn Phillip Sousa 36 Where did the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific meet in 1869 creating the nationrsquos first transcontinental railroad ndashPromontory Utah 37 What feat did Captain Chuck Yeager accomplish in 1947 in the Bell X-1 ndashhe broke the speed of sound 38 Who was the first secretary of the treasury in the United States ndashAlexander Hamilton 39 What film is based on the lives of socialites claus and Sunny von Bulow ndashReversal of Fortune 40 Who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling ndashMajorie Kinnan Rawlings 41 What associated press correspondent was freed in 1991 after spending 2455 days in captivity ndashTerry Anderson 42 In 1913 the 16th amendment of the constitution was passed allowing the federal government to do what ndash tax personal income Countries and Their Capitals

Russia Moscow

Andorra Andorra LaVella

Austria Vienna

Belgium Brussels

Denmark Copenhagen

Finland Helsinki

France Paris

Germany Berlin

Greece Athens

Holy See (Vatican City)

Vatican City

Iceland Reykjavik

Ireland Dublin

Italy Rome

Liechtenstein

Vaduz

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Malta Valletta

Monaco Monaco

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Norway Oslo

Portugal Lisbon

San Marino San Marino

Spain Madrid

Sweden Stockholm

Switzerland Bern

United Kingdom

London

Albania Tirana

Armenia Yerevan

Azerbaijan Baku

Belarus Minsk

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Bulgaria Sofia

Croatia Zagreb

Czech Republic

Prague

Estonia Tallinn

Georgia Tbilisi

Hungary Budapest

Latvia Riga

Lithuania Vilnius

Macedonia Skopje

Moldova Chisinau

Poland Warsaw

Romania Bucharest

Serbia and Montenegro

Belgrade

Slovakia Bratislave

Slovenia Ljubjana

Ukraine Kiev

Cyprus Nicosia

Turkey Ankara

Scotland Edinburgh

Wales Cardiff

Northern Ireland

Belfast

States and Their Capitals

Alabama - Montgomery

Alaska - Juneau

Arizona - Phoenix

Arkansas - Little Rock

California - Sacramento

Colorado - Denver

Connecticut - Hartford

Delaware - Dover

Florida - Tallahassee

Georgia - Atlanta

Hawaii - Honolulu

Idaho - Boise

Illinois - Springfield

Indiana - Indianapolis

Iowa - Des Moines

Kansas - Topeka

Kentucky - Frankfort

Louisiana - Baton Rouge

Maine - Augusta

Maryland - Annapolis

Massachusetts - Boston

Michigan - Lansing

Minnesota - St Paul

Mississippi - Jackson

Missouri - Jefferson City

Montana - Helena

Nebraska - Lincoln

Nevada - Carson City

New Hampshire - Concord

New Jersey - Trenton

New Mexico - Santa Fe

New York - Albany

North Carolina - Raleigh

North Dakota - Bismarck

Ohio - Columbus

Oklahoma - Oklahoma City

Oregon - Salem

Pennsylvania - Harrisburg

Rhode Island - Providence

South Carolina - Columbia

South Dakota - Pierre

Tennessee - Nashville

Texas - Austin

Utah - Salt Lake City

Vermont - Montpelier

Virginia - Richmond

Washington - Olympia

West Virginia ndash Charleston

Wisconsin - Madison

Wyoming ndash Cheyenne

RANDOM KNOWLEDGE 1 Where are the Transvall and Orange Free State provinces ndashSouth Africa 2 What war did the Potsdam Conference follow ndashWorld War II 3 During his presidency the White House bought 12 tons of jelly beans from the Goelitz Candy

Company between January 1981 and September 1988 ndashRonald Reagan 4 What was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans ndashGeorge Elliot 5 He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Lepanto an injury of which he was very proud He had a

rivalry with his contemporary Lope de Vegas whom he regarded as an inferior writer Name this author who was in prison at Argamasilla in La Mancha when he created character such as Dulcinea Sancho Panza and don Quixote ndashMiguel De Cervantes

6 This nationrsquos flag like that of the US features seven horizontal alternating red and white stripes In the upper-left corner however where the US flag has stars this countryrsquos flag has a yellow cresecent moon and smaller sun on a blue field It shares borders with Thailand Indonesia and Brunei What is this Southeast Asian nation with capital at Kuala Lumpur ndashMalaysia

7 Their name comes from the Greek word for salt producer and these elements react with metals to form ionic halide salts They are all reactive with the reactivity decreasing down the group As typical non metals they have high electronegativities and ionization energies and form compounds by gaining an electron to complete a stable configuration What is this group of elements also known as group 17 which includes fluorine bromine and iodine ndashHalogens

8 To qualify for it one had to be male a US citizen (or at least have filed for citizenship) and either be the head of a family or over 21 years old It granted 160 acres of public land free of charge of settlers who agreed to stay at least five years and to cultivate their parcel What was this 1862 act which promoted the agricultural development of the west ndashHomestead Act

9 Alexander the Great sought out this wise man and upon finding him lying in a tub offered to give him whatever he wanted He wise man replied ldquoI want you to get out of my sunrdquo He earned the nickname ldquocyonrdquo meaning dog for his habit of wandering around naked and sleeping in dog houses Who was this Greek philosopher founder of the cynics who was said to search the earth with his lamp looking for an honest man-Diogenes

10 He was born in Bohemia and trained at the Vienna Conservatory eventually becoming conductor of the Prague Opera His second symphony was called the ldquoRessurectionrdquo while his first was known as the ldquoTitanrdquo In a sad irony one of his own children died soon after he completed his song cycle ldquoSongs on the Death of Childrenrdquo Name this composer whose ldquoSymphony of a Thousandrdquo doesnrsquot take quite that many musicians ndashGustav Mahler

11 The single name which designates each of these rulers is the Arabic word for tiger One invaded India and won a decisive victory at Paniput in 1526 The other constantly fights against his rival King Rataxas who happens to be a whino One was the founder of the Moghol Empire the other is King of the Elephants Give the common name ndashBabar

12 It is the second-most common neurological disorder trailing only strokes and affecting one percent of the population Attacks are intiated by abnormal synchronous electrical discharges from millions of neurons in the brain contracting skeletal muscles involuntarily In many cases the reticular activation system is depressed so the victim loses consciousness What is this disorder whose seizures are classified as grand mal or petit mal ndashEpilepsy

13 In the background are three arches which impose formal composition to the scene On the right are two women in draped gown resting their foreheads together sadly Just to the left of them a women hugs two small children In the center of the scene stands a man holding three swords and exhorting the three figures who face him their arms straight forward in a Roman salute This describes what 1785 painting by Jacques-Louis David (dah-veed) ndashThe Oath of Horatii

14 A poor Presbyterian minister from Leeds England he met Benjamin Franklin in 1767 and became interested in electricity and chemistry He began studying the vats of a nearby brewery fascinated by the different prosperities of the gases emitted by them One gas he noticed extinguished the burning chips of wood he had placed over it In 1774 he isolated the gas which he called ldquodephlogisticated airrdquo Name this British scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen ndashJoseph Priestly

15 It takes place on June 27th of an unnamed year The master of ceremonies is Mr Summers who is assisted by the postmaster Mr Graves Old Man Warner complains that the procedure is no longer carried out as formally as when he was a boy Only heads of families draw and when itrsquos done Bill Hutchinson finds himself holding the slip of paper with the black dot on it This is a brief description of what classic short story by Shirley Jackson ndashThe lottery

16 He was the only completely clean-shaven president to serve between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson He was also last president who was a Civil War veteran having served on the staff of a colonel named Rutherford B Hayes Governor of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 his campaign was directed by the king maker Mark Hanna Name this president assassinated in 1901 ndashWilliam McKinley

17 Evaluate the integral from negative 2 to 2 of sin3x with respect to x -0 18 Fly-by missions of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1980 and 1981 gave scientists more information about

this planet than had been accumulated since Galileo first viewed it telescopically in 1610 The missions discovered that the planetrsquos atmosphere is dynamic with wind storms gusting over 1500 kilometers per hour

Bonus Round 1 ANSWERS Letter Category ndash brought to you by the letter ldquoJrdquo 1 From 213 to 144 million years ago it was the second period of the Mesozoic era Answer Jurassic period 2 This is the SI unit of mechanical work Answer Joule 3 This American official was a co-author of the Federalist Papers Answer John Jay (accept J)

4 The seat of Duval County it is the largest city in the state of Florida Answer Jacksonville 5 A wicker basket is attached to the playerrsquos arm to hurl the small rubber ball in this popular Spanish sport similar to handball Answer Jai Alai (pron hindashlie) 6 This 20th century American artist was one of the leading proponents of pop art Answer Jasper Johns 7 The most well known novel of this 20th century Irish writer is Ulysses Answer James Joyce 8 This May 1916 battle was the only major sea battle between the British and Germans during World War 1 Answer Battle of Jutland 9 The pants tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle where they end in a snug cuff and are worn primarily for horseback riding Answer jodhpurs

10 One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity this emperorrsquos rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire and is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii or restoration of the empirerdquo Answer Justinian Bonus Round 2 This Letter Category brought to you by the letter ldquoGrdquo - KEY 1 This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue Answer George Gershwin 2 The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel Answer The Grapes of Wrath

3 650 miles off the Pacific coast these islands are owned by Ecuador Answer Galapagos Islands 4 Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s this was the public policy of Soviet openness Answer Glasnost 5 This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants Answer Gary 6 This man was the 18th President of the United States Answer Ulysses S Grant

7 Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US Answer Glaucoma 8 This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his ldquoback to Africardquo movement Answer Marcus Garvey 9 What is the official processed food of Georgia Answer Grits

10 What is the name of the famous search engine which changes with important dates throughout the year Answer Google Round 1 Toss-Up Questions

1 2 Charlotte Jacksonville Birmingham ndash place these southern cities in order from largest to smallest a Answer Jacksonville Charlotte Birmingham (213)

2 Written after its authors baptism in the Church of England the third section of this cycle of poems takes its name from a group of rocks off the English coast ldquoThe Dry Salvagesrdquo It also includes the sections ldquoBurnt Nortonrdquo ldquoEast Cokerrdquo and ldquoLittle Giddingrdquo For 10 points name this musically titled cycle of poems by T S Eliot ANSWER Four Quartets

3 John Kerry Shannon OBrien Mitt Romney ndash Which of these people was recently elected governor of Massachusetts Answer Mitt Romney (3)

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

10 A romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens Theseus and Hippolyta and with fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest The play is one of Shakespeares most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world ndash A Midsummer Nightrsquos Dream

11 First published on 28 January 1813 is the most famous of Jane Austens novels and one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel The book is Jane Austens second published novel Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797 initially called First Impressions but was never published under that title Following revisions it was first published on 28 January 1813 Like both its predecessors Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey it was written in Steventon Hampshire where Austen lived in the rectory ndash Pride and Prejudice

AMERICAN HISTORY 1 Who orbited the earth three times in the Friendship 7 ndashJohn Glenn 2 Born in 1912 this Oklahoma born folk singer is known for such songs as The Land is Your Land and Blowin Down This long Dusty Road ndashWoody Guthrie 3 The Shenandoah Valley is located in which state- Virginia 4 During what year did the American Civil War come to an end -1865 5 What comic strip featured such characters as daisy Mae Fearless Fosdick and Gat Garson ndashLilrsquo Abner 6 What Ivy League school is located in New Haven ndashYale 7 In the world of automobile racing what does NASCAR stand for- National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing 8 Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake are both found in which state ndashNew York 9 Labor leader Cesar Chavez led the boycott of what Californian produce during the 1960s ndash Grapes 10 What killed over 2000 people in Johnstown Pennsylvania in 1889 ndasha flood 11 What Holocaust survivor and American author was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 ndash Elie Wiesel 12 What novel exploring the conflicts of mixed race man in America did James Weldon Johnson publish in 1912- The autobiography of an Ex-colored man 13 What acclaimed novelist was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil war and World War Two ndash Ernest Hemingway 14 What explorer sailing for the Netherlands explored the Hudson River in 1609 ndashHenry Hudson 15 Jonas Salk is best known for developing a vaccine against what disease ndashPolio 16 What is the highest mountain found in the United States ndashMt McKinley 17 What popular American song is sung to the tune of the old British drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven ndashThe Star Spangled Banner 18 After converting to Christainity who changed her name to Rebecca and traveled to Britain to meet the King of England ndashPocahontas 19 Who won a Grammy Award for the song From a Distance ndashBette Midler 20 voters in what southern state adopted a new flag in 2003 ndashGeorgia 21 What generalrsquos farewell speech included the now famous line ldquoold soldiers never die they just fade awayrdquo- General Douglas MacArthur 22 ldquoOperation Overlordrdquo was the code name for the invasion of what country ndashFrance 23 During three days of rioting in New York city in 1863 over 1000 people were killed What prompted the riots ndashdraft of union forces in the civil war 24 Who was the president of the confederate states of America during the civil war ndashJefferson Davis 25 What company was founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak in 1976 ndashapple computers 26 What John Steinbeck novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 ndashGrapes of Wrath 27 Who is best known for his painting American gothic ndashGrant Wood 28 What legendary back robber did the ldquolady in redrdquo betray to federal agents ndashJohn Dillinger 29 Who commanded the American forces in Vietnam until 1968 ndashGeneral William Westmoreland

30 Blondie and Dagwood have appeared in newspapers for over half a century Name their two children ndashalexander and cookie 31 Who won the battle of pea ridge ndashthe union 32 What was the first American city to host the summer Olympics ndashst louis (1904) 33 Lopez Orcas and Waldron all belong to what group of islands ndashSan Juan 34 Completed in 1825 what was nicknamed the ldquoBig Ditchrdquo ndashThe Erie Canal 35 What band leader was known as the ldquoMarch Kingrdquo ndashJohn Phillip Sousa 36 Where did the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific meet in 1869 creating the nationrsquos first transcontinental railroad ndashPromontory Utah 37 What feat did Captain Chuck Yeager accomplish in 1947 in the Bell X-1 ndashhe broke the speed of sound 38 Who was the first secretary of the treasury in the United States ndashAlexander Hamilton 39 What film is based on the lives of socialites claus and Sunny von Bulow ndashReversal of Fortune 40 Who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling ndashMajorie Kinnan Rawlings 41 What associated press correspondent was freed in 1991 after spending 2455 days in captivity ndashTerry Anderson 42 In 1913 the 16th amendment of the constitution was passed allowing the federal government to do what ndash tax personal income Countries and Their Capitals

Russia Moscow

Andorra Andorra LaVella

Austria Vienna

Belgium Brussels

Denmark Copenhagen

Finland Helsinki

France Paris

Germany Berlin

Greece Athens

Holy See (Vatican City)

Vatican City

Iceland Reykjavik

Ireland Dublin

Italy Rome

Liechtenstein

Vaduz

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Malta Valletta

Monaco Monaco

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Norway Oslo

Portugal Lisbon

San Marino San Marino

Spain Madrid

Sweden Stockholm

Switzerland Bern

United Kingdom

London

Albania Tirana

Armenia Yerevan

Azerbaijan Baku

Belarus Minsk

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Bulgaria Sofia

Croatia Zagreb

Czech Republic

Prague

Estonia Tallinn

Georgia Tbilisi

Hungary Budapest

Latvia Riga

Lithuania Vilnius

Macedonia Skopje

Moldova Chisinau

Poland Warsaw

Romania Bucharest

Serbia and Montenegro

Belgrade

Slovakia Bratislave

Slovenia Ljubjana

Ukraine Kiev

Cyprus Nicosia

Turkey Ankara

Scotland Edinburgh

Wales Cardiff

Northern Ireland

Belfast

States and Their Capitals

Alabama - Montgomery

Alaska - Juneau

Arizona - Phoenix

Arkansas - Little Rock

California - Sacramento

Colorado - Denver

Connecticut - Hartford

Delaware - Dover

Florida - Tallahassee

Georgia - Atlanta

Hawaii - Honolulu

Idaho - Boise

Illinois - Springfield

Indiana - Indianapolis

Iowa - Des Moines

Kansas - Topeka

Kentucky - Frankfort

Louisiana - Baton Rouge

Maine - Augusta

Maryland - Annapolis

Massachusetts - Boston

Michigan - Lansing

Minnesota - St Paul

Mississippi - Jackson

Missouri - Jefferson City

Montana - Helena

Nebraska - Lincoln

Nevada - Carson City

New Hampshire - Concord

New Jersey - Trenton

New Mexico - Santa Fe

New York - Albany

North Carolina - Raleigh

North Dakota - Bismarck

Ohio - Columbus

Oklahoma - Oklahoma City

Oregon - Salem

Pennsylvania - Harrisburg

Rhode Island - Providence

South Carolina - Columbia

South Dakota - Pierre

Tennessee - Nashville

Texas - Austin

Utah - Salt Lake City

Vermont - Montpelier

Virginia - Richmond

Washington - Olympia

West Virginia ndash Charleston

Wisconsin - Madison

Wyoming ndash Cheyenne

RANDOM KNOWLEDGE 1 Where are the Transvall and Orange Free State provinces ndashSouth Africa 2 What war did the Potsdam Conference follow ndashWorld War II 3 During his presidency the White House bought 12 tons of jelly beans from the Goelitz Candy

Company between January 1981 and September 1988 ndashRonald Reagan 4 What was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans ndashGeorge Elliot 5 He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Lepanto an injury of which he was very proud He had a

rivalry with his contemporary Lope de Vegas whom he regarded as an inferior writer Name this author who was in prison at Argamasilla in La Mancha when he created character such as Dulcinea Sancho Panza and don Quixote ndashMiguel De Cervantes

6 This nationrsquos flag like that of the US features seven horizontal alternating red and white stripes In the upper-left corner however where the US flag has stars this countryrsquos flag has a yellow cresecent moon and smaller sun on a blue field It shares borders with Thailand Indonesia and Brunei What is this Southeast Asian nation with capital at Kuala Lumpur ndashMalaysia

7 Their name comes from the Greek word for salt producer and these elements react with metals to form ionic halide salts They are all reactive with the reactivity decreasing down the group As typical non metals they have high electronegativities and ionization energies and form compounds by gaining an electron to complete a stable configuration What is this group of elements also known as group 17 which includes fluorine bromine and iodine ndashHalogens

8 To qualify for it one had to be male a US citizen (or at least have filed for citizenship) and either be the head of a family or over 21 years old It granted 160 acres of public land free of charge of settlers who agreed to stay at least five years and to cultivate their parcel What was this 1862 act which promoted the agricultural development of the west ndashHomestead Act

9 Alexander the Great sought out this wise man and upon finding him lying in a tub offered to give him whatever he wanted He wise man replied ldquoI want you to get out of my sunrdquo He earned the nickname ldquocyonrdquo meaning dog for his habit of wandering around naked and sleeping in dog houses Who was this Greek philosopher founder of the cynics who was said to search the earth with his lamp looking for an honest man-Diogenes

10 He was born in Bohemia and trained at the Vienna Conservatory eventually becoming conductor of the Prague Opera His second symphony was called the ldquoRessurectionrdquo while his first was known as the ldquoTitanrdquo In a sad irony one of his own children died soon after he completed his song cycle ldquoSongs on the Death of Childrenrdquo Name this composer whose ldquoSymphony of a Thousandrdquo doesnrsquot take quite that many musicians ndashGustav Mahler

11 The single name which designates each of these rulers is the Arabic word for tiger One invaded India and won a decisive victory at Paniput in 1526 The other constantly fights against his rival King Rataxas who happens to be a whino One was the founder of the Moghol Empire the other is King of the Elephants Give the common name ndashBabar

12 It is the second-most common neurological disorder trailing only strokes and affecting one percent of the population Attacks are intiated by abnormal synchronous electrical discharges from millions of neurons in the brain contracting skeletal muscles involuntarily In many cases the reticular activation system is depressed so the victim loses consciousness What is this disorder whose seizures are classified as grand mal or petit mal ndashEpilepsy

13 In the background are three arches which impose formal composition to the scene On the right are two women in draped gown resting their foreheads together sadly Just to the left of them a women hugs two small children In the center of the scene stands a man holding three swords and exhorting the three figures who face him their arms straight forward in a Roman salute This describes what 1785 painting by Jacques-Louis David (dah-veed) ndashThe Oath of Horatii

14 A poor Presbyterian minister from Leeds England he met Benjamin Franklin in 1767 and became interested in electricity and chemistry He began studying the vats of a nearby brewery fascinated by the different prosperities of the gases emitted by them One gas he noticed extinguished the burning chips of wood he had placed over it In 1774 he isolated the gas which he called ldquodephlogisticated airrdquo Name this British scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen ndashJoseph Priestly

15 It takes place on June 27th of an unnamed year The master of ceremonies is Mr Summers who is assisted by the postmaster Mr Graves Old Man Warner complains that the procedure is no longer carried out as formally as when he was a boy Only heads of families draw and when itrsquos done Bill Hutchinson finds himself holding the slip of paper with the black dot on it This is a brief description of what classic short story by Shirley Jackson ndashThe lottery

16 He was the only completely clean-shaven president to serve between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson He was also last president who was a Civil War veteran having served on the staff of a colonel named Rutherford B Hayes Governor of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 his campaign was directed by the king maker Mark Hanna Name this president assassinated in 1901 ndashWilliam McKinley

17 Evaluate the integral from negative 2 to 2 of sin3x with respect to x -0 18 Fly-by missions of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1980 and 1981 gave scientists more information about

this planet than had been accumulated since Galileo first viewed it telescopically in 1610 The missions discovered that the planetrsquos atmosphere is dynamic with wind storms gusting over 1500 kilometers per hour

Bonus Round 1 ANSWERS Letter Category ndash brought to you by the letter ldquoJrdquo 1 From 213 to 144 million years ago it was the second period of the Mesozoic era Answer Jurassic period 2 This is the SI unit of mechanical work Answer Joule 3 This American official was a co-author of the Federalist Papers Answer John Jay (accept J)

4 The seat of Duval County it is the largest city in the state of Florida Answer Jacksonville 5 A wicker basket is attached to the playerrsquos arm to hurl the small rubber ball in this popular Spanish sport similar to handball Answer Jai Alai (pron hindashlie) 6 This 20th century American artist was one of the leading proponents of pop art Answer Jasper Johns 7 The most well known novel of this 20th century Irish writer is Ulysses Answer James Joyce 8 This May 1916 battle was the only major sea battle between the British and Germans during World War 1 Answer Battle of Jutland 9 The pants tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle where they end in a snug cuff and are worn primarily for horseback riding Answer jodhpurs

10 One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity this emperorrsquos rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire and is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii or restoration of the empirerdquo Answer Justinian Bonus Round 2 This Letter Category brought to you by the letter ldquoGrdquo - KEY 1 This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue Answer George Gershwin 2 The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel Answer The Grapes of Wrath

3 650 miles off the Pacific coast these islands are owned by Ecuador Answer Galapagos Islands 4 Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s this was the public policy of Soviet openness Answer Glasnost 5 This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants Answer Gary 6 This man was the 18th President of the United States Answer Ulysses S Grant

7 Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US Answer Glaucoma 8 This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his ldquoback to Africardquo movement Answer Marcus Garvey 9 What is the official processed food of Georgia Answer Grits

10 What is the name of the famous search engine which changes with important dates throughout the year Answer Google Round 1 Toss-Up Questions

1 2 Charlotte Jacksonville Birmingham ndash place these southern cities in order from largest to smallest a Answer Jacksonville Charlotte Birmingham (213)

2 Written after its authors baptism in the Church of England the third section of this cycle of poems takes its name from a group of rocks off the English coast ldquoThe Dry Salvagesrdquo It also includes the sections ldquoBurnt Nortonrdquo ldquoEast Cokerrdquo and ldquoLittle Giddingrdquo For 10 points name this musically titled cycle of poems by T S Eliot ANSWER Four Quartets

3 John Kerry Shannon OBrien Mitt Romney ndash Which of these people was recently elected governor of Massachusetts Answer Mitt Romney (3)

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

30 Blondie and Dagwood have appeared in newspapers for over half a century Name their two children ndashalexander and cookie 31 Who won the battle of pea ridge ndashthe union 32 What was the first American city to host the summer Olympics ndashst louis (1904) 33 Lopez Orcas and Waldron all belong to what group of islands ndashSan Juan 34 Completed in 1825 what was nicknamed the ldquoBig Ditchrdquo ndashThe Erie Canal 35 What band leader was known as the ldquoMarch Kingrdquo ndashJohn Phillip Sousa 36 Where did the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific meet in 1869 creating the nationrsquos first transcontinental railroad ndashPromontory Utah 37 What feat did Captain Chuck Yeager accomplish in 1947 in the Bell X-1 ndashhe broke the speed of sound 38 Who was the first secretary of the treasury in the United States ndashAlexander Hamilton 39 What film is based on the lives of socialites claus and Sunny von Bulow ndashReversal of Fortune 40 Who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling ndashMajorie Kinnan Rawlings 41 What associated press correspondent was freed in 1991 after spending 2455 days in captivity ndashTerry Anderson 42 In 1913 the 16th amendment of the constitution was passed allowing the federal government to do what ndash tax personal income Countries and Their Capitals

Russia Moscow

Andorra Andorra LaVella

Austria Vienna

Belgium Brussels

Denmark Copenhagen

Finland Helsinki

France Paris

Germany Berlin

Greece Athens

Holy See (Vatican City)

Vatican City

Iceland Reykjavik

Ireland Dublin

Italy Rome

Liechtenstein

Vaduz

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Malta Valletta

Monaco Monaco

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Norway Oslo

Portugal Lisbon

San Marino San Marino

Spain Madrid

Sweden Stockholm

Switzerland Bern

United Kingdom

London

Albania Tirana

Armenia Yerevan

Azerbaijan Baku

Belarus Minsk

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Bulgaria Sofia

Croatia Zagreb

Czech Republic

Prague

Estonia Tallinn

Georgia Tbilisi

Hungary Budapest

Latvia Riga

Lithuania Vilnius

Macedonia Skopje

Moldova Chisinau

Poland Warsaw

Romania Bucharest

Serbia and Montenegro

Belgrade

Slovakia Bratislave

Slovenia Ljubjana

Ukraine Kiev

Cyprus Nicosia

Turkey Ankara

Scotland Edinburgh

Wales Cardiff

Northern Ireland

Belfast

States and Their Capitals

Alabama - Montgomery

Alaska - Juneau

Arizona - Phoenix

Arkansas - Little Rock

California - Sacramento

Colorado - Denver

Connecticut - Hartford

Delaware - Dover

Florida - Tallahassee

Georgia - Atlanta

Hawaii - Honolulu

Idaho - Boise

Illinois - Springfield

Indiana - Indianapolis

Iowa - Des Moines

Kansas - Topeka

Kentucky - Frankfort

Louisiana - Baton Rouge

Maine - Augusta

Maryland - Annapolis

Massachusetts - Boston

Michigan - Lansing

Minnesota - St Paul

Mississippi - Jackson

Missouri - Jefferson City

Montana - Helena

Nebraska - Lincoln

Nevada - Carson City

New Hampshire - Concord

New Jersey - Trenton

New Mexico - Santa Fe

New York - Albany

North Carolina - Raleigh

North Dakota - Bismarck

Ohio - Columbus

Oklahoma - Oklahoma City

Oregon - Salem

Pennsylvania - Harrisburg

Rhode Island - Providence

South Carolina - Columbia

South Dakota - Pierre

Tennessee - Nashville

Texas - Austin

Utah - Salt Lake City

Vermont - Montpelier

Virginia - Richmond

Washington - Olympia

West Virginia ndash Charleston

Wisconsin - Madison

Wyoming ndash Cheyenne

RANDOM KNOWLEDGE 1 Where are the Transvall and Orange Free State provinces ndashSouth Africa 2 What war did the Potsdam Conference follow ndashWorld War II 3 During his presidency the White House bought 12 tons of jelly beans from the Goelitz Candy

Company between January 1981 and September 1988 ndashRonald Reagan 4 What was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans ndashGeorge Elliot 5 He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Lepanto an injury of which he was very proud He had a

rivalry with his contemporary Lope de Vegas whom he regarded as an inferior writer Name this author who was in prison at Argamasilla in La Mancha when he created character such as Dulcinea Sancho Panza and don Quixote ndashMiguel De Cervantes

6 This nationrsquos flag like that of the US features seven horizontal alternating red and white stripes In the upper-left corner however where the US flag has stars this countryrsquos flag has a yellow cresecent moon and smaller sun on a blue field It shares borders with Thailand Indonesia and Brunei What is this Southeast Asian nation with capital at Kuala Lumpur ndashMalaysia

7 Their name comes from the Greek word for salt producer and these elements react with metals to form ionic halide salts They are all reactive with the reactivity decreasing down the group As typical non metals they have high electronegativities and ionization energies and form compounds by gaining an electron to complete a stable configuration What is this group of elements also known as group 17 which includes fluorine bromine and iodine ndashHalogens

8 To qualify for it one had to be male a US citizen (or at least have filed for citizenship) and either be the head of a family or over 21 years old It granted 160 acres of public land free of charge of settlers who agreed to stay at least five years and to cultivate their parcel What was this 1862 act which promoted the agricultural development of the west ndashHomestead Act

9 Alexander the Great sought out this wise man and upon finding him lying in a tub offered to give him whatever he wanted He wise man replied ldquoI want you to get out of my sunrdquo He earned the nickname ldquocyonrdquo meaning dog for his habit of wandering around naked and sleeping in dog houses Who was this Greek philosopher founder of the cynics who was said to search the earth with his lamp looking for an honest man-Diogenes

10 He was born in Bohemia and trained at the Vienna Conservatory eventually becoming conductor of the Prague Opera His second symphony was called the ldquoRessurectionrdquo while his first was known as the ldquoTitanrdquo In a sad irony one of his own children died soon after he completed his song cycle ldquoSongs on the Death of Childrenrdquo Name this composer whose ldquoSymphony of a Thousandrdquo doesnrsquot take quite that many musicians ndashGustav Mahler

11 The single name which designates each of these rulers is the Arabic word for tiger One invaded India and won a decisive victory at Paniput in 1526 The other constantly fights against his rival King Rataxas who happens to be a whino One was the founder of the Moghol Empire the other is King of the Elephants Give the common name ndashBabar

12 It is the second-most common neurological disorder trailing only strokes and affecting one percent of the population Attacks are intiated by abnormal synchronous electrical discharges from millions of neurons in the brain contracting skeletal muscles involuntarily In many cases the reticular activation system is depressed so the victim loses consciousness What is this disorder whose seizures are classified as grand mal or petit mal ndashEpilepsy

13 In the background are three arches which impose formal composition to the scene On the right are two women in draped gown resting their foreheads together sadly Just to the left of them a women hugs two small children In the center of the scene stands a man holding three swords and exhorting the three figures who face him their arms straight forward in a Roman salute This describes what 1785 painting by Jacques-Louis David (dah-veed) ndashThe Oath of Horatii

14 A poor Presbyterian minister from Leeds England he met Benjamin Franklin in 1767 and became interested in electricity and chemistry He began studying the vats of a nearby brewery fascinated by the different prosperities of the gases emitted by them One gas he noticed extinguished the burning chips of wood he had placed over it In 1774 he isolated the gas which he called ldquodephlogisticated airrdquo Name this British scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen ndashJoseph Priestly

15 It takes place on June 27th of an unnamed year The master of ceremonies is Mr Summers who is assisted by the postmaster Mr Graves Old Man Warner complains that the procedure is no longer carried out as formally as when he was a boy Only heads of families draw and when itrsquos done Bill Hutchinson finds himself holding the slip of paper with the black dot on it This is a brief description of what classic short story by Shirley Jackson ndashThe lottery

16 He was the only completely clean-shaven president to serve between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson He was also last president who was a Civil War veteran having served on the staff of a colonel named Rutherford B Hayes Governor of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 his campaign was directed by the king maker Mark Hanna Name this president assassinated in 1901 ndashWilliam McKinley

17 Evaluate the integral from negative 2 to 2 of sin3x with respect to x -0 18 Fly-by missions of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1980 and 1981 gave scientists more information about

this planet than had been accumulated since Galileo first viewed it telescopically in 1610 The missions discovered that the planetrsquos atmosphere is dynamic with wind storms gusting over 1500 kilometers per hour

Bonus Round 1 ANSWERS Letter Category ndash brought to you by the letter ldquoJrdquo 1 From 213 to 144 million years ago it was the second period of the Mesozoic era Answer Jurassic period 2 This is the SI unit of mechanical work Answer Joule 3 This American official was a co-author of the Federalist Papers Answer John Jay (accept J)

4 The seat of Duval County it is the largest city in the state of Florida Answer Jacksonville 5 A wicker basket is attached to the playerrsquos arm to hurl the small rubber ball in this popular Spanish sport similar to handball Answer Jai Alai (pron hindashlie) 6 This 20th century American artist was one of the leading proponents of pop art Answer Jasper Johns 7 The most well known novel of this 20th century Irish writer is Ulysses Answer James Joyce 8 This May 1916 battle was the only major sea battle between the British and Germans during World War 1 Answer Battle of Jutland 9 The pants tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle where they end in a snug cuff and are worn primarily for horseback riding Answer jodhpurs

10 One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity this emperorrsquos rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire and is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii or restoration of the empirerdquo Answer Justinian Bonus Round 2 This Letter Category brought to you by the letter ldquoGrdquo - KEY 1 This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue Answer George Gershwin 2 The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel Answer The Grapes of Wrath

3 650 miles off the Pacific coast these islands are owned by Ecuador Answer Galapagos Islands 4 Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s this was the public policy of Soviet openness Answer Glasnost 5 This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants Answer Gary 6 This man was the 18th President of the United States Answer Ulysses S Grant

7 Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US Answer Glaucoma 8 This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his ldquoback to Africardquo movement Answer Marcus Garvey 9 What is the official processed food of Georgia Answer Grits

10 What is the name of the famous search engine which changes with important dates throughout the year Answer Google Round 1 Toss-Up Questions

1 2 Charlotte Jacksonville Birmingham ndash place these southern cities in order from largest to smallest a Answer Jacksonville Charlotte Birmingham (213)

2 Written after its authors baptism in the Church of England the third section of this cycle of poems takes its name from a group of rocks off the English coast ldquoThe Dry Salvagesrdquo It also includes the sections ldquoBurnt Nortonrdquo ldquoEast Cokerrdquo and ldquoLittle Giddingrdquo For 10 points name this musically titled cycle of poems by T S Eliot ANSWER Four Quartets

3 John Kerry Shannon OBrien Mitt Romney ndash Which of these people was recently elected governor of Massachusetts Answer Mitt Romney (3)

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

States and Their Capitals

Alabama - Montgomery

Alaska - Juneau

Arizona - Phoenix

Arkansas - Little Rock

California - Sacramento

Colorado - Denver

Connecticut - Hartford

Delaware - Dover

Florida - Tallahassee

Georgia - Atlanta

Hawaii - Honolulu

Idaho - Boise

Illinois - Springfield

Indiana - Indianapolis

Iowa - Des Moines

Kansas - Topeka

Kentucky - Frankfort

Louisiana - Baton Rouge

Maine - Augusta

Maryland - Annapolis

Massachusetts - Boston

Michigan - Lansing

Minnesota - St Paul

Mississippi - Jackson

Missouri - Jefferson City

Montana - Helena

Nebraska - Lincoln

Nevada - Carson City

New Hampshire - Concord

New Jersey - Trenton

New Mexico - Santa Fe

New York - Albany

North Carolina - Raleigh

North Dakota - Bismarck

Ohio - Columbus

Oklahoma - Oklahoma City

Oregon - Salem

Pennsylvania - Harrisburg

Rhode Island - Providence

South Carolina - Columbia

South Dakota - Pierre

Tennessee - Nashville

Texas - Austin

Utah - Salt Lake City

Vermont - Montpelier

Virginia - Richmond

Washington - Olympia

West Virginia ndash Charleston

Wisconsin - Madison

Wyoming ndash Cheyenne

RANDOM KNOWLEDGE 1 Where are the Transvall and Orange Free State provinces ndashSouth Africa 2 What war did the Potsdam Conference follow ndashWorld War II 3 During his presidency the White House bought 12 tons of jelly beans from the Goelitz Candy

Company between January 1981 and September 1988 ndashRonald Reagan 4 What was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans ndashGeorge Elliot 5 He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Lepanto an injury of which he was very proud He had a

rivalry with his contemporary Lope de Vegas whom he regarded as an inferior writer Name this author who was in prison at Argamasilla in La Mancha when he created character such as Dulcinea Sancho Panza and don Quixote ndashMiguel De Cervantes

6 This nationrsquos flag like that of the US features seven horizontal alternating red and white stripes In the upper-left corner however where the US flag has stars this countryrsquos flag has a yellow cresecent moon and smaller sun on a blue field It shares borders with Thailand Indonesia and Brunei What is this Southeast Asian nation with capital at Kuala Lumpur ndashMalaysia

7 Their name comes from the Greek word for salt producer and these elements react with metals to form ionic halide salts They are all reactive with the reactivity decreasing down the group As typical non metals they have high electronegativities and ionization energies and form compounds by gaining an electron to complete a stable configuration What is this group of elements also known as group 17 which includes fluorine bromine and iodine ndashHalogens

8 To qualify for it one had to be male a US citizen (or at least have filed for citizenship) and either be the head of a family or over 21 years old It granted 160 acres of public land free of charge of settlers who agreed to stay at least five years and to cultivate their parcel What was this 1862 act which promoted the agricultural development of the west ndashHomestead Act

9 Alexander the Great sought out this wise man and upon finding him lying in a tub offered to give him whatever he wanted He wise man replied ldquoI want you to get out of my sunrdquo He earned the nickname ldquocyonrdquo meaning dog for his habit of wandering around naked and sleeping in dog houses Who was this Greek philosopher founder of the cynics who was said to search the earth with his lamp looking for an honest man-Diogenes

10 He was born in Bohemia and trained at the Vienna Conservatory eventually becoming conductor of the Prague Opera His second symphony was called the ldquoRessurectionrdquo while his first was known as the ldquoTitanrdquo In a sad irony one of his own children died soon after he completed his song cycle ldquoSongs on the Death of Childrenrdquo Name this composer whose ldquoSymphony of a Thousandrdquo doesnrsquot take quite that many musicians ndashGustav Mahler

11 The single name which designates each of these rulers is the Arabic word for tiger One invaded India and won a decisive victory at Paniput in 1526 The other constantly fights against his rival King Rataxas who happens to be a whino One was the founder of the Moghol Empire the other is King of the Elephants Give the common name ndashBabar

12 It is the second-most common neurological disorder trailing only strokes and affecting one percent of the population Attacks are intiated by abnormal synchronous electrical discharges from millions of neurons in the brain contracting skeletal muscles involuntarily In many cases the reticular activation system is depressed so the victim loses consciousness What is this disorder whose seizures are classified as grand mal or petit mal ndashEpilepsy

13 In the background are three arches which impose formal composition to the scene On the right are two women in draped gown resting their foreheads together sadly Just to the left of them a women hugs two small children In the center of the scene stands a man holding three swords and exhorting the three figures who face him their arms straight forward in a Roman salute This describes what 1785 painting by Jacques-Louis David (dah-veed) ndashThe Oath of Horatii

14 A poor Presbyterian minister from Leeds England he met Benjamin Franklin in 1767 and became interested in electricity and chemistry He began studying the vats of a nearby brewery fascinated by the different prosperities of the gases emitted by them One gas he noticed extinguished the burning chips of wood he had placed over it In 1774 he isolated the gas which he called ldquodephlogisticated airrdquo Name this British scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen ndashJoseph Priestly

15 It takes place on June 27th of an unnamed year The master of ceremonies is Mr Summers who is assisted by the postmaster Mr Graves Old Man Warner complains that the procedure is no longer carried out as formally as when he was a boy Only heads of families draw and when itrsquos done Bill Hutchinson finds himself holding the slip of paper with the black dot on it This is a brief description of what classic short story by Shirley Jackson ndashThe lottery

16 He was the only completely clean-shaven president to serve between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson He was also last president who was a Civil War veteran having served on the staff of a colonel named Rutherford B Hayes Governor of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 his campaign was directed by the king maker Mark Hanna Name this president assassinated in 1901 ndashWilliam McKinley

17 Evaluate the integral from negative 2 to 2 of sin3x with respect to x -0 18 Fly-by missions of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1980 and 1981 gave scientists more information about

this planet than had been accumulated since Galileo first viewed it telescopically in 1610 The missions discovered that the planetrsquos atmosphere is dynamic with wind storms gusting over 1500 kilometers per hour

Bonus Round 1 ANSWERS Letter Category ndash brought to you by the letter ldquoJrdquo 1 From 213 to 144 million years ago it was the second period of the Mesozoic era Answer Jurassic period 2 This is the SI unit of mechanical work Answer Joule 3 This American official was a co-author of the Federalist Papers Answer John Jay (accept J)

4 The seat of Duval County it is the largest city in the state of Florida Answer Jacksonville 5 A wicker basket is attached to the playerrsquos arm to hurl the small rubber ball in this popular Spanish sport similar to handball Answer Jai Alai (pron hindashlie) 6 This 20th century American artist was one of the leading proponents of pop art Answer Jasper Johns 7 The most well known novel of this 20th century Irish writer is Ulysses Answer James Joyce 8 This May 1916 battle was the only major sea battle between the British and Germans during World War 1 Answer Battle of Jutland 9 The pants tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle where they end in a snug cuff and are worn primarily for horseback riding Answer jodhpurs

10 One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity this emperorrsquos rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire and is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii or restoration of the empirerdquo Answer Justinian Bonus Round 2 This Letter Category brought to you by the letter ldquoGrdquo - KEY 1 This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue Answer George Gershwin 2 The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel Answer The Grapes of Wrath

3 650 miles off the Pacific coast these islands are owned by Ecuador Answer Galapagos Islands 4 Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s this was the public policy of Soviet openness Answer Glasnost 5 This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants Answer Gary 6 This man was the 18th President of the United States Answer Ulysses S Grant

7 Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US Answer Glaucoma 8 This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his ldquoback to Africardquo movement Answer Marcus Garvey 9 What is the official processed food of Georgia Answer Grits

10 What is the name of the famous search engine which changes with important dates throughout the year Answer Google Round 1 Toss-Up Questions

1 2 Charlotte Jacksonville Birmingham ndash place these southern cities in order from largest to smallest a Answer Jacksonville Charlotte Birmingham (213)

2 Written after its authors baptism in the Church of England the third section of this cycle of poems takes its name from a group of rocks off the English coast ldquoThe Dry Salvagesrdquo It also includes the sections ldquoBurnt Nortonrdquo ldquoEast Cokerrdquo and ldquoLittle Giddingrdquo For 10 points name this musically titled cycle of poems by T S Eliot ANSWER Four Quartets

3 John Kerry Shannon OBrien Mitt Romney ndash Which of these people was recently elected governor of Massachusetts Answer Mitt Romney (3)

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

Alabama - Montgomery

Alaska - Juneau

Arizona - Phoenix

Arkansas - Little Rock

California - Sacramento

Colorado - Denver

Connecticut - Hartford

Delaware - Dover

Florida - Tallahassee

Georgia - Atlanta

Hawaii - Honolulu

Idaho - Boise

Illinois - Springfield

Indiana - Indianapolis

Iowa - Des Moines

Kansas - Topeka

Kentucky - Frankfort

Louisiana - Baton Rouge

Maine - Augusta

Maryland - Annapolis

Massachusetts - Boston

Michigan - Lansing

Minnesota - St Paul

Mississippi - Jackson

Missouri - Jefferson City

Montana - Helena

Nebraska - Lincoln

Nevada - Carson City

New Hampshire - Concord

New Jersey - Trenton

New Mexico - Santa Fe

New York - Albany

North Carolina - Raleigh

North Dakota - Bismarck

Ohio - Columbus

Oklahoma - Oklahoma City

Oregon - Salem

Pennsylvania - Harrisburg

Rhode Island - Providence

South Carolina - Columbia

South Dakota - Pierre

Tennessee - Nashville

Texas - Austin

Utah - Salt Lake City

Vermont - Montpelier

Virginia - Richmond

Washington - Olympia

West Virginia ndash Charleston

Wisconsin - Madison

Wyoming ndash Cheyenne

RANDOM KNOWLEDGE 1 Where are the Transvall and Orange Free State provinces ndashSouth Africa 2 What war did the Potsdam Conference follow ndashWorld War II 3 During his presidency the White House bought 12 tons of jelly beans from the Goelitz Candy

Company between January 1981 and September 1988 ndashRonald Reagan 4 What was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans ndashGeorge Elliot 5 He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Lepanto an injury of which he was very proud He had a

rivalry with his contemporary Lope de Vegas whom he regarded as an inferior writer Name this author who was in prison at Argamasilla in La Mancha when he created character such as Dulcinea Sancho Panza and don Quixote ndashMiguel De Cervantes

6 This nationrsquos flag like that of the US features seven horizontal alternating red and white stripes In the upper-left corner however where the US flag has stars this countryrsquos flag has a yellow cresecent moon and smaller sun on a blue field It shares borders with Thailand Indonesia and Brunei What is this Southeast Asian nation with capital at Kuala Lumpur ndashMalaysia

7 Their name comes from the Greek word for salt producer and these elements react with metals to form ionic halide salts They are all reactive with the reactivity decreasing down the group As typical non metals they have high electronegativities and ionization energies and form compounds by gaining an electron to complete a stable configuration What is this group of elements also known as group 17 which includes fluorine bromine and iodine ndashHalogens

8 To qualify for it one had to be male a US citizen (or at least have filed for citizenship) and either be the head of a family or over 21 years old It granted 160 acres of public land free of charge of settlers who agreed to stay at least five years and to cultivate their parcel What was this 1862 act which promoted the agricultural development of the west ndashHomestead Act

9 Alexander the Great sought out this wise man and upon finding him lying in a tub offered to give him whatever he wanted He wise man replied ldquoI want you to get out of my sunrdquo He earned the nickname ldquocyonrdquo meaning dog for his habit of wandering around naked and sleeping in dog houses Who was this Greek philosopher founder of the cynics who was said to search the earth with his lamp looking for an honest man-Diogenes

10 He was born in Bohemia and trained at the Vienna Conservatory eventually becoming conductor of the Prague Opera His second symphony was called the ldquoRessurectionrdquo while his first was known as the ldquoTitanrdquo In a sad irony one of his own children died soon after he completed his song cycle ldquoSongs on the Death of Childrenrdquo Name this composer whose ldquoSymphony of a Thousandrdquo doesnrsquot take quite that many musicians ndashGustav Mahler

11 The single name which designates each of these rulers is the Arabic word for tiger One invaded India and won a decisive victory at Paniput in 1526 The other constantly fights against his rival King Rataxas who happens to be a whino One was the founder of the Moghol Empire the other is King of the Elephants Give the common name ndashBabar

12 It is the second-most common neurological disorder trailing only strokes and affecting one percent of the population Attacks are intiated by abnormal synchronous electrical discharges from millions of neurons in the brain contracting skeletal muscles involuntarily In many cases the reticular activation system is depressed so the victim loses consciousness What is this disorder whose seizures are classified as grand mal or petit mal ndashEpilepsy

13 In the background are three arches which impose formal composition to the scene On the right are two women in draped gown resting their foreheads together sadly Just to the left of them a women hugs two small children In the center of the scene stands a man holding three swords and exhorting the three figures who face him their arms straight forward in a Roman salute This describes what 1785 painting by Jacques-Louis David (dah-veed) ndashThe Oath of Horatii

14 A poor Presbyterian minister from Leeds England he met Benjamin Franklin in 1767 and became interested in electricity and chemistry He began studying the vats of a nearby brewery fascinated by the different prosperities of the gases emitted by them One gas he noticed extinguished the burning chips of wood he had placed over it In 1774 he isolated the gas which he called ldquodephlogisticated airrdquo Name this British scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen ndashJoseph Priestly

15 It takes place on June 27th of an unnamed year The master of ceremonies is Mr Summers who is assisted by the postmaster Mr Graves Old Man Warner complains that the procedure is no longer carried out as formally as when he was a boy Only heads of families draw and when itrsquos done Bill Hutchinson finds himself holding the slip of paper with the black dot on it This is a brief description of what classic short story by Shirley Jackson ndashThe lottery

16 He was the only completely clean-shaven president to serve between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson He was also last president who was a Civil War veteran having served on the staff of a colonel named Rutherford B Hayes Governor of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 his campaign was directed by the king maker Mark Hanna Name this president assassinated in 1901 ndashWilliam McKinley

17 Evaluate the integral from negative 2 to 2 of sin3x with respect to x -0 18 Fly-by missions of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1980 and 1981 gave scientists more information about

this planet than had been accumulated since Galileo first viewed it telescopically in 1610 The missions discovered that the planetrsquos atmosphere is dynamic with wind storms gusting over 1500 kilometers per hour

Bonus Round 1 ANSWERS Letter Category ndash brought to you by the letter ldquoJrdquo 1 From 213 to 144 million years ago it was the second period of the Mesozoic era Answer Jurassic period 2 This is the SI unit of mechanical work Answer Joule 3 This American official was a co-author of the Federalist Papers Answer John Jay (accept J)

4 The seat of Duval County it is the largest city in the state of Florida Answer Jacksonville 5 A wicker basket is attached to the playerrsquos arm to hurl the small rubber ball in this popular Spanish sport similar to handball Answer Jai Alai (pron hindashlie) 6 This 20th century American artist was one of the leading proponents of pop art Answer Jasper Johns 7 The most well known novel of this 20th century Irish writer is Ulysses Answer James Joyce 8 This May 1916 battle was the only major sea battle between the British and Germans during World War 1 Answer Battle of Jutland 9 The pants tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle where they end in a snug cuff and are worn primarily for horseback riding Answer jodhpurs

10 One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity this emperorrsquos rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire and is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii or restoration of the empirerdquo Answer Justinian Bonus Round 2 This Letter Category brought to you by the letter ldquoGrdquo - KEY 1 This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue Answer George Gershwin 2 The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel Answer The Grapes of Wrath

3 650 miles off the Pacific coast these islands are owned by Ecuador Answer Galapagos Islands 4 Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s this was the public policy of Soviet openness Answer Glasnost 5 This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants Answer Gary 6 This man was the 18th President of the United States Answer Ulysses S Grant

7 Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US Answer Glaucoma 8 This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his ldquoback to Africardquo movement Answer Marcus Garvey 9 What is the official processed food of Georgia Answer Grits

10 What is the name of the famous search engine which changes with important dates throughout the year Answer Google Round 1 Toss-Up Questions

1 2 Charlotte Jacksonville Birmingham ndash place these southern cities in order from largest to smallest a Answer Jacksonville Charlotte Birmingham (213)

2 Written after its authors baptism in the Church of England the third section of this cycle of poems takes its name from a group of rocks off the English coast ldquoThe Dry Salvagesrdquo It also includes the sections ldquoBurnt Nortonrdquo ldquoEast Cokerrdquo and ldquoLittle Giddingrdquo For 10 points name this musically titled cycle of poems by T S Eliot ANSWER Four Quartets

3 John Kerry Shannon OBrien Mitt Romney ndash Which of these people was recently elected governor of Massachusetts Answer Mitt Romney (3)

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

9 Alexander the Great sought out this wise man and upon finding him lying in a tub offered to give him whatever he wanted He wise man replied ldquoI want you to get out of my sunrdquo He earned the nickname ldquocyonrdquo meaning dog for his habit of wandering around naked and sleeping in dog houses Who was this Greek philosopher founder of the cynics who was said to search the earth with his lamp looking for an honest man-Diogenes

10 He was born in Bohemia and trained at the Vienna Conservatory eventually becoming conductor of the Prague Opera His second symphony was called the ldquoRessurectionrdquo while his first was known as the ldquoTitanrdquo In a sad irony one of his own children died soon after he completed his song cycle ldquoSongs on the Death of Childrenrdquo Name this composer whose ldquoSymphony of a Thousandrdquo doesnrsquot take quite that many musicians ndashGustav Mahler

11 The single name which designates each of these rulers is the Arabic word for tiger One invaded India and won a decisive victory at Paniput in 1526 The other constantly fights against his rival King Rataxas who happens to be a whino One was the founder of the Moghol Empire the other is King of the Elephants Give the common name ndashBabar

12 It is the second-most common neurological disorder trailing only strokes and affecting one percent of the population Attacks are intiated by abnormal synchronous electrical discharges from millions of neurons in the brain contracting skeletal muscles involuntarily In many cases the reticular activation system is depressed so the victim loses consciousness What is this disorder whose seizures are classified as grand mal or petit mal ndashEpilepsy

13 In the background are three arches which impose formal composition to the scene On the right are two women in draped gown resting their foreheads together sadly Just to the left of them a women hugs two small children In the center of the scene stands a man holding three swords and exhorting the three figures who face him their arms straight forward in a Roman salute This describes what 1785 painting by Jacques-Louis David (dah-veed) ndashThe Oath of Horatii

14 A poor Presbyterian minister from Leeds England he met Benjamin Franklin in 1767 and became interested in electricity and chemistry He began studying the vats of a nearby brewery fascinated by the different prosperities of the gases emitted by them One gas he noticed extinguished the burning chips of wood he had placed over it In 1774 he isolated the gas which he called ldquodephlogisticated airrdquo Name this British scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen ndashJoseph Priestly

15 It takes place on June 27th of an unnamed year The master of ceremonies is Mr Summers who is assisted by the postmaster Mr Graves Old Man Warner complains that the procedure is no longer carried out as formally as when he was a boy Only heads of families draw and when itrsquos done Bill Hutchinson finds himself holding the slip of paper with the black dot on it This is a brief description of what classic short story by Shirley Jackson ndashThe lottery

16 He was the only completely clean-shaven president to serve between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson He was also last president who was a Civil War veteran having served on the staff of a colonel named Rutherford B Hayes Governor of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 his campaign was directed by the king maker Mark Hanna Name this president assassinated in 1901 ndashWilliam McKinley

17 Evaluate the integral from negative 2 to 2 of sin3x with respect to x -0 18 Fly-by missions of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1980 and 1981 gave scientists more information about

this planet than had been accumulated since Galileo first viewed it telescopically in 1610 The missions discovered that the planetrsquos atmosphere is dynamic with wind storms gusting over 1500 kilometers per hour

Bonus Round 1 ANSWERS Letter Category ndash brought to you by the letter ldquoJrdquo 1 From 213 to 144 million years ago it was the second period of the Mesozoic era Answer Jurassic period 2 This is the SI unit of mechanical work Answer Joule 3 This American official was a co-author of the Federalist Papers Answer John Jay (accept J)

4 The seat of Duval County it is the largest city in the state of Florida Answer Jacksonville 5 A wicker basket is attached to the playerrsquos arm to hurl the small rubber ball in this popular Spanish sport similar to handball Answer Jai Alai (pron hindashlie) 6 This 20th century American artist was one of the leading proponents of pop art Answer Jasper Johns 7 The most well known novel of this 20th century Irish writer is Ulysses Answer James Joyce 8 This May 1916 battle was the only major sea battle between the British and Germans during World War 1 Answer Battle of Jutland 9 The pants tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle where they end in a snug cuff and are worn primarily for horseback riding Answer jodhpurs

10 One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity this emperorrsquos rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire and is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii or restoration of the empirerdquo Answer Justinian Bonus Round 2 This Letter Category brought to you by the letter ldquoGrdquo - KEY 1 This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue Answer George Gershwin 2 The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel Answer The Grapes of Wrath

3 650 miles off the Pacific coast these islands are owned by Ecuador Answer Galapagos Islands 4 Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s this was the public policy of Soviet openness Answer Glasnost 5 This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants Answer Gary 6 This man was the 18th President of the United States Answer Ulysses S Grant

7 Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US Answer Glaucoma 8 This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his ldquoback to Africardquo movement Answer Marcus Garvey 9 What is the official processed food of Georgia Answer Grits

10 What is the name of the famous search engine which changes with important dates throughout the year Answer Google Round 1 Toss-Up Questions

1 2 Charlotte Jacksonville Birmingham ndash place these southern cities in order from largest to smallest a Answer Jacksonville Charlotte Birmingham (213)

2 Written after its authors baptism in the Church of England the third section of this cycle of poems takes its name from a group of rocks off the English coast ldquoThe Dry Salvagesrdquo It also includes the sections ldquoBurnt Nortonrdquo ldquoEast Cokerrdquo and ldquoLittle Giddingrdquo For 10 points name this musically titled cycle of poems by T S Eliot ANSWER Four Quartets

3 John Kerry Shannon OBrien Mitt Romney ndash Which of these people was recently elected governor of Massachusetts Answer Mitt Romney (3)

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

4 The seat of Duval County it is the largest city in the state of Florida Answer Jacksonville 5 A wicker basket is attached to the playerrsquos arm to hurl the small rubber ball in this popular Spanish sport similar to handball Answer Jai Alai (pron hindashlie) 6 This 20th century American artist was one of the leading proponents of pop art Answer Jasper Johns 7 The most well known novel of this 20th century Irish writer is Ulysses Answer James Joyce 8 This May 1916 battle was the only major sea battle between the British and Germans during World War 1 Answer Battle of Jutland 9 The pants tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle where they end in a snug cuff and are worn primarily for horseback riding Answer jodhpurs

10 One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity this emperorrsquos rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire and is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii or restoration of the empirerdquo Answer Justinian Bonus Round 2 This Letter Category brought to you by the letter ldquoGrdquo - KEY 1 This American composer created works including Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue Answer George Gershwin 2 The Joad family drives to California searching for work in this Steinbeck novel Answer The Grapes of Wrath

3 650 miles off the Pacific coast these islands are owned by Ecuador Answer Galapagos Islands 4 Initiated by Gorbachev in the late 1980s this was the public policy of Soviet openness Answer Glasnost 5 This meow-ing creature is the pet snail of Spongebob Squarepants Answer Gary 6 This man was the 18th President of the United States Answer Ulysses S Grant

7 Swelling of the aqueous humor causes vision impairment in this leading cause of blindness in the US Answer Glaucoma 8 This Jamaican-born activist is best remembered for his ldquoback to Africardquo movement Answer Marcus Garvey 9 What is the official processed food of Georgia Answer Grits

10 What is the name of the famous search engine which changes with important dates throughout the year Answer Google Round 1 Toss-Up Questions

1 2 Charlotte Jacksonville Birmingham ndash place these southern cities in order from largest to smallest a Answer Jacksonville Charlotte Birmingham (213)

2 Written after its authors baptism in the Church of England the third section of this cycle of poems takes its name from a group of rocks off the English coast ldquoThe Dry Salvagesrdquo It also includes the sections ldquoBurnt Nortonrdquo ldquoEast Cokerrdquo and ldquoLittle Giddingrdquo For 10 points name this musically titled cycle of poems by T S Eliot ANSWER Four Quartets

3 John Kerry Shannon OBrien Mitt Romney ndash Which of these people was recently elected governor of Massachusetts Answer Mitt Romney (3)

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

4 ldquoThere is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendshipsrdquo Reverend Hale says this to Francis Nurse in what Arthur Miller work about the Salem Witch Trials

a Answer The Crucible 5 Omaha Denver Tucson ndash place these western cities in order from smallest to largest

a Answer Omaha Tucson Denver (132) 6 Who proposed the concept of universal gravitation Answer Sir Isaac Newton

7 ldquoLife is a game boy Life is a game that one plays according to the rulesrdquo Mr Spencer tells Holden Caulfield this in what novel by JD Salinger Answer The Catcher In the Rye

8 Las Vegas Miami San Diego ndash Which city is the setting for the original CSI series on CBS a Answer Las Vegas (1)

9 ldquoCuriosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature gladness akin to rapture as they were unfolded to me are among the earliest sensations I can rememberrdquo This is how Victor describes his interest in science in what novel by Mary Shelley

a Answer Frankenstein

10 Bolero The Firebird The Nutcracker ndash Which of these is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky a Answer The Firebird

11 ldquoAt that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody They may be teaching that stillrdquo Billy Pilgrim says this in what Kurt Vonnegut work

a Answer Slaughterhouse-Five 12 A professor of physics from 1877 to 1907 his doctoral thesis was ldquoOn the Continuity of the Liquid and

Gaseous Staterdquo and he laid the foundations for Kamerlingh Onnes and James Dewar In 1881 he added two parameters representing size and attraction to the ideal gas law Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics FTP name this Dutch physicist for whom weak attractive forces between atoms or molecules are named ANSWER Johannes Diederik van der Waals

13 Name this function that for a 2 by 2 matrix is calculated by subtracting the product of the upper right and lower left entries from the product of the upper left and lower right entries ANSWER determinant

14 Name the year The Olympic Games were held in Athens George W Bush was elected to a second term and Yasser Arafat diedAnswer2004

Round Two Toss-up Questions ndash 10 points each 1 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1880 saw this African diamond company founded

by Cecil Rhodes and Albert Beit and saw this author publish The Brothers Karamazov a year before his death

Answers De Beers Mining Corporation and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 (Two part question ndash each worth 5 points) The same year 1956 saw a bus boycott in this city bring Martin

Luther King Jr into the national spotlight and saw Prince Rainier of Monaco marry this American actress

Answers Montgomery Alabama and Grace Kelly

3 The Fecund Earth as well as frescoes in San Francisco New York and Mexico City are some of the murals

painted by this Mexican artist Answer Diego Rivera

4 This 20th century Welsh poetrsquos best known works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and A Childrsquos

Christmas in Wales Answer Dylan Thomas

5 An enemy of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony he defended the republic with Pompey and is best remembered

as one of Romersquos greatest orators Answer Cicero

6 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the rhombus [rhombus with diagonals shown half of the longer

diagonal is 8 units long half of the shorter diagonal is 6 units long]Answer 48

7 Stressing a ldquoreturn to normalcyrdquo he died suddenly in his 3rd year of office after falling ill during a trip to

Alaska he was the 29th US President Answer Warren Harding

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

8 Concave Convex Plane-- Which type of mirror creates virtual images that are erect and demagnified

Answer Convex Mirror (2)

9 This colorful body of water is located south of the Barents Sea and the Kola Peninsula off the northern coast of

Arkhangelsk Russia Answer White Sea

10 ldquoIts what you learn after you know it all that countsrdquo Who said this He was ejected 91 times during his

career but managed the 1970 Orioles to the world title Answer Earl Weaver

11 (two part question) 1902 saw this dam completed in Egypt and saw this ldquokingrdquo dinosaur discovered by

Barnum Brown in Hell Creek MontanaAnswers Aswan High Dam and Tyrannosaurus rex

12 (two part question) The same year 1820 saw this author write Ode on a Grecian Urn and this man who the

basic unit of current is named after discover the basic workings of electric currents Answers John Keats and

Andre Marie Ampere

13 A founder of De Stijl and Neoplasticism this Dutch artist is best known for painting lots of straight lines at 90ordm

angles and using only primary colors Answer Piet Mondrian

14 This 19th century British poetrsquos best known works include To a Skylark and Prometheus Unbound Answer Percy

B Shelley

15 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 this 3000-hit Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder died in a plane crash attempting

to take food to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972 Answer Roberto Clemente

16 Pencil and paper - Calculate the area of the semicircle [ semicircle with an inscribed right triangle with sides of

length 9 and 12] Answer 225π 8 (or 28125 π)

17 This Democrat supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act approved the Gadsden Purchase he was the 14th President

of the US Answer Franklin Pierce

18 Capacitance Inductance ResistancemdashWhich of these properties is measured in Farads Answer Capacitance

(1)

19 This small inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk in half since 1960 due to evaporation

and over-irrigation Answer Aral Sea

20 ldquoBut to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the

right way this is not easyrdquo This quote was made by what man the tutor of Alexander the Great Answer

Aristotle

Round 3 Toss-ups ndash 15 points each 1 Books VII through IX deal with number theory while the five regular polyhedra are

constructed in Book XIII Book I opens with definitions of points lines and planes and five postulates Identify this classical book of geometry written in the 200s BC by Euclid

Answer The Elements 2 Sir Edward Pakenhams British troops made a foolish frontal assault on well-fortified American

positions suffering 2000 casualties to Andrew Jacksons troops 21 Identify this battle fought in 1815 after the War of 1812 had officially ended

1 Answer Battle of New Orleans 3 The Women of Trachis Philoctetes Ajax and Electra are four of the seven extant plays of this

Greek dramatist whose also wrote Oedipus at Colonus Antigone and Oedipus Rex 1 Answer Sophocles

4 Exposure to radioactivity blinded him but enhanced his other senses A lawyer by day he donned a red suit to battle villains like the Kingpin and Bullseye and he was in love with the assassin Electra Name this Marvel Comics superhero who will be played by Ben Affleck in a movie opening in early 2003

1 Answer Daredevil

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

5 This country is the only one in Europe whose head of state is a grand duke and its two predominant languages are French and German Name this small country bordering Belgium and the Netherlands and often grouped with them as the Benelux countries

1 Answer Luxembourg

6 This novel is narrated by Mr Lockwood the tenant of Thrushcross Grange and his housekeeper Nelly Dean Name this Emily Bronte novel where the lives of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their children are manipulated by the vengeful Heathcliff

1 Answer Wuthering Heights

7 He worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Rachel but was given Leah instead and he had to labor another seven years before he could marry Rachel Name this biblical patriarch the father of Joseph and his brothers who tricked his brother Esau out of their father Isaacs blessing

1 Answer Jacob

8 He spent the last twenty years of his life working on the never-finished sculpture group The Gates of Hell which his best-known work would have been a part of Name this French sculptor of Balzac The Burghers of Calais The Kiss and The Thinker

1 Answer Auguste Rodin

9 King of England for 60 years he was declared insane and his son served as regent for the last nine years of his reign Name this British monarch who was the target of much criticism for his handling of the American Revolution

1 Answer George III

10 Predicted in 1920 by Earnest Rutherford these particles were not observed until 1932 by James Chadwick Name these particles weighing 100867 atomic mass units with no electric charge

1 Answer neutrons

11 His first plays were produced by the Provincetown Players and he is the only author to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama Name this American author of Beyond the Horizon The Iceman Cometh and Mourning Becomes Electra

1 Answer Eugene ONeill 12 Its founder was a peasant known as the Hongwu Emperor Following the Confucian tradition of

looking down on merchants but built up a massive militant class also rebuilding much of the Great Wall Great cultural developments include the novel and block-printing Name this Chinese dynasty lasting from 1368-1644 commonly known for its porcelain vases

1 Answer Ming 13 In the winter itrsquos largely the result of high pressure over Siberia and in the summer a result of low

pressure over south Asia From the Arabic word for ldquoseasonrdquo this weather phenomenon is defined as a wind system that reverses direction between the winter and summer Name this event that brings to India dry weather every winter and heavy rainfall each summer Answer Monsoon

14 Find two positive numbers The product is 192 and the sum is a maximum ANSWER radic and radic

15 So shabby-looking at the end of his life when he was run over by a tram as he crossed a busy street in

1926 taxi drivers thought he was a vagrant and refused to take him to a hospital Casa Battloacute and Casa

Milaacute are examples of his abstract expressionism and surrealism which parallel sculptural

configurations Name this Spanish architect who worked mostly in Barcelona most famous for his

greatest yet unfinished work the Church of the Holy Family begun in 1882

1 Answer Antonio Gaudiacute i Cornet 16 Born in Kumasi he studied both at home and abroad finally getting a masters in management from

MIT In 1962 he joined his lifelong employer serving in Africa Europe and North America with

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo

various agencies Advancing through the ranks quickly after the Gulf conflict in 1997 he succeeded

Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his new position Name the current Secretary-General of the United Nations

1 Answer Kofi Annan 17 Three part question Team who answers the first one right gets to answer the other two

1 Consider the following molecules [Moderator read slowly] Benzene butanone ethanol toluene A Which can be oxidized to acetaldehyde ANSWER ethanol

2 [10] Which has the largest molecular weight ANSWER toluene

3 [10] Which has no dipole moment ANSWER benzene

18 Pencil and paper ndashSolve for sides a and b for the right triangle ABC if angle A is 60deg when side c is 10 cmAnswer A= 5radic3 B= 5

19 Pencil and paper- An automobilersquos velocity starting from rest is ( )

where v is measured in

feet per second Find the acceleration at 10 seconds ANSWER

HI-Q Bonus Round 3 This Bonus Round brought to you by the letter ldquoBrdquo

1 Red claylike and earthy this mineral is the primary source of aluminum and its compounds

Answer Bauxite

2 2 This city on the Caspian Sea is the capital of Azerbaijan

Answer Baku

3 3 Dmitry Ivan Alyosha and Smerdyakov are the four sons of Fyodor in this novel by Dostoyevsky

Answer The Brothers Karamazov

4 4 An undercover CIA agent working to expose SD-6 this ldquoAliasrdquo character is played by Jennifer

Garner Answer Sydney Bristow

5 5 A painter for the Medici family and illustrator for Dante his works include The Primavera and The

Birth of Venus Answer Sandro Botticelli

6 6 This Revolutionary liberated much of South America from Spanish rule

Answer Simoacuten Boliacutevar

7 7 Of family Crucifera in order Capparales it is a variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature

flowers itrsquos rumored that George Bush the elder banned it from Air Force One

Answer Broccoli

8 8 Set in the year 632 After Ford this is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley

Answer Brave New World

9 9 This is the pen name of Stephen King

Answer Richard Bachman

10 10 Name or nickname of a form of carbon discovered in 1985 whose structure resembles a geodesic

dome

Answer buckminsterfullerene or ldquoBucky ballsrdquo